Quotes About Stephen Cope

aversion has exactly the same deleterious effects on the mind as grasping does. Remember our friends disturbance, obscuration, and separation? Yep. The aversive mind is visited by each of them.

Tubman: Myth, Memory and History. Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2007

He declared that it was his love for poetry—and his ambition to write great poetry—that had compelled his self-training. "To love poetry is to study it," he said to Ward. (Frost became one of America's greatest autodidacts.)

primary distortion in my dharma life has been the age-old misery of self-absorption.