Quotes About Selflessness

Leonard Cohen once said about the benefits of many years of meditation, "The less there was of me, the happier I got." Letting

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others. If this is the only training we ever remember to do, it will benefit us tremendously and everyone else as well.

Selfless help, helping others without an agenda, is the result of having helped ourselves. We

No matter how committed we are to unkindness, selfishness, or greed, the genuine heart of bodhicitta cannot be lost. It is here in all that lives, never marred and completely whole.

From a gesture of generosity, true letting go will evolve.

Two kinds of selfish people: the unwise and the wise. Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.

As Leonard Cohen once said about the benefits of many years of meditation, "The less there was of me, the happier I got.

the best way to serve ourselves is to love and care for others. These are powerful tools for dissolving the barriers that perpetuate the suffering of all beings.

To make things as easy as possible to under stand, we can summarize the four boundless qualities in the single phrase "a kind heart." Just train yourself to have a kind heart always and in all situations. —PATRUL RINPOCHE

Your anger, pride, deceit, and greed should be such that they hurt no one. If they are limited to where they only hurt only you and no one else, then the path of liberation is open.

By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage 'Thou art all' and 'Thy will be done'.

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Selfless giving is the art of living.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself so completely that only his work remains!

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Bhakti is expressed through our service attitude.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.