Quotes from David Michie

The Holy Secret is this: If you wish to end your suffering, seek to end the suffering of others. If you wish for happiness, seek the happiness of others. Exchanging thoughts of self for thoughts of others—this is the most effective way to be happy.

I sometimes think the past is a dangerous place to go looking for happiness," said the Indian man sitting next to Serena.

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

For in giving, we receive.

Enlightened beings cannot take away your suffering or give you happiness. If they could do this, wouldn't they have done so already?

The value of a life is determined not by its length, but by what you do with it.

We are beyond being helped, even by other more realized beings, unless we are in a receptive mental state.

What a stroke of good luck to be harvesting the fruits of a life once well lived.

the countless other nonhuman semchens, or sentient beings? Don't they seek happiness, too? And the avoidance of suffering? Are their lives not as important to them as my life is to me?

How valid is a practice that frees our bodies from rigidity but does nothing for the mind?

Of course, we cannot genuinely accept others and wish for their happiness if we don't first accept ourselves.

What is the point of making up a story about ourselves that we hate? Whatever story we come up with is going to be different from the one that other people have created about us anyway—you can be sure of that.

So to cultivate compassion for others, first we begin with ourselves. And our practice must be meaningful, because superficial practice will only give superficial results. We must go beyond mere ideas and deepen our understanding. Can anyone here give me a definition of the word 'realization

A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life?

When our understanding of an idea develops to the point that it changes our behavior.

How do you think the Dharma is able to describe the death process in such detail? It's not a whole bunch of lamas sit around speculating on what might happen. It's because they actually go through it. Frequently.

we can allow the perfect to become the enemy of the good.

enough, Mrs. Trinci was standing in the middle

And we can achieve so much more when we are positive. Confident.

our problems are not out there in the world, but in our minds—where we can do something about them.

soul friend". An Anam Cara may play the role of death midwife, helping a being through an important time of transition.

ne demande jamais à en recevoir, mais la façon

she carries with her an almost-tangible expectation that your own deepest wish, like hers, is to serve a greater purpose.

If you help people lead more positive lives that benefit others as well as themselves, this is a good thing. Very good thing. The danger is that self-development can lead us to more self-cherishing, self-absorption, self-infatuation. And these are not true causes of happiness but the opposite.