Interdependence and emptiness show us that there are no fixed starting points. We can start from nothing. Whatever we have, wherever we are — that is the place we can start from. Many people have the idea that they lack what they need in order to start working toward their dreams. They feel they do not have enough power, or they do not have enough money. But they should know that any point is the right starting point. This is the perspective that emptiness opens up. We can start from zero.
17th Karmapa
from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out
translated by Ngodup Tsering Burkhar & Damchö Diana Finnegan
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Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:
- Authentic love toward others
- Disconnected from our own noble heart
- Capacity for Change
- Difference without Division
- Finding our nobility of heart
- Loving Responsibility
- Open-minded
- Our relationship to the material world
- There are no fixed starting points
- Just Love
- My trust is a gift
- Our life is vast
- Making healthy relationships possible
- Authentic love
- We truly have everything we need already
- Interdependent reality
- Boxing Love with Our Expectations
- Look what he did
- Balanced Life
- Let the moon be the keeper of my love