Atisa quotes

“Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.”
-- Atisa

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“The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.”
-- Atisa

Source : "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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“The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”
-- Atisa

Source : "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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“See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child”
-- Atisa

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“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”
-- Atisa

Source : "Perspectives on Mankind's Search for Meaning". Book by Walter Taminang, p. 63, 2008.

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“The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.”
-- Atisa

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“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”

“Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.”

“Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.”

“In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.”

“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.”

Source : "Poems". Book by C. F. Main, p. 3, 1973.

“The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.”

“Harmony is a wonderful thing, but not nearly as powerful as awareness.”

“Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.”

“We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.”