Chokling Monastery Quotes & Sayings

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self. — Huston Smith

BROWSED this far into the magazine, you've likely noticed something unusual about this issue: it has three consecutive covers. Why? Good question. The theme of The Atlantic 's annual Ideas Issue this year is creativity - which is a hard concept to define, let alone to illustrate. We could have gone with an illuminated lightbulb, or photographed Brad Pitt painting at an easel, but those options didn't seem very ... creative. — Anonymous

Look for smart ways around a problem or faster ways to resolve them. Make effective use of the people around you instead of assuming you have to do everything yourself. — Scott Berkun

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. — Nagarjuna

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles. — Denis Leary

When we love, we see beauty; we speak in beauty; we walk in beauty. In love, we are beauty itself. — Catherine Ingram

However, do you know what? I am convinced that fellows like me who live in dark cellars must be kept under restraint. They may be able to live in their dark cellars for forty years and never open their mouths, but the moment they get into the light of day and break out they may talk and talk and talk ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There remained a hole drilled through his heart. — Norman Mailer