Sonam Rinchen quotes

Sonam Rinchen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.”
-- Sonam Rinchen

#Attachment Quotes #Water Quotes #Salt Quotes

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”
“You must choose between your attachments and happiness.”
“If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.”
“Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.”
“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”
“When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.”
“Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners”
“Of course, you canâ€™t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.”
“Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.64, Macmillan

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