“What’s between birth and death is called LIFE. The choices that we make dictates the life that we lead. The life that we lead has got some thing to do with the choices we make. The choices that we make has an impact on our Mental and Physical health. What we think, feel is part of our belief system. The belief system can affect our behavior. So Change your thinking and Change your Life. It all starts from WITHIN.”
“Life is a true lover. It will always destroy any attempt to hold on to something, not because it doesn’t want us to feel safe, but because it will always lead us back to what we truly are.”
The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha’s teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. More simply put, suffering exists; it has a cause; it has an end; and it has a cause to bring about its end. The notion of suffering is not intended to convey a negative world view, but rather, a pragmatic perspective that deals with the world as it is, and attempts to rectify it. The concept of pleasure is not denied, but acknowledged as fleeting. Pursuit of pleasure can only continue what is ultimately an unquenchable thirst. The same logic belies an understanding of happiness. In the end, only aging, sickness, and death are certain and unavoidable.
The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil’s masterpiece.
— Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows one, as the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws the wagon. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded on our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts. If one speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows one, like a shadow that never leaves.
“God is truth. But he also loves, and the less you tell the truth in love, it’s not the whole truth. Someday you will stand before him, and he will ask you for the truth. He will not say, Did you do your job every day, no matter what? He will say, Did you love every day, no matter what? You still have time to change the answer.”
— Monica/ The Whole Truth and Nothing But…/ Touched by an Angel/
