Dorje Quotes & Sayings

I can.
He rent his dark tresses,
Resulting in messes,
Thus prompting his L.I. to flee till,
she reached the end of the world and jumped off.
Perhaps I have untapped potential. — Franny Billingsley

Nothing is intrinsically or ultimately bad. Any situation that arises is only relatively good or bad based on many factors, including - most significantly - how you perceive the situation and how you respond to it. — Ogyen Trinley Dorje

As long as we're in a state of confusion, overwhelmed by the three conflicting emotions, trapped in cyclic existence, we're not happy and we can't benefit sentient beings. Even though we think we might be benefitting them, ultimately we're not. The only way to really be of benefit, to ourselves and others, is to establish the status of buddha. There's nothing better than this. But until we purify our unwholesome karma, especially that of the body, there's no buddha - the buddha will not exist for us. — Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje

One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it. — Leon M. Lederman

Vanity takes no more obnoxious form than the everlasting desire for approval. — Edgar Wallace

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around. — Tom Burke

Oh, to be seventy again! — Georges Clemenceau

sentient beings; that she had the karma to unite method and wisdom and benefit beings with him. — Thekchok Dorje

I'll give you this: you're really showing off your amazing sucking skills. I bet you'd be great at BJ's. — Laura Thalassa

Cause and effect is infallible, like the shadow that follows one's body wherever it goes. — Chokling Dewey Dorje

[A less-enlightened personage once asked Ummon What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth> Ummon answered him A dried shit-stick] — Dan Simmons

Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment,
in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart.
By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state,
we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises. — Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate. — Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

In a dark time, the mind begins to see. — Theodore Roethke

So perhaps the most worrying single remark made by a responsible banking official during the current crisis came from Jochen Sanio, the head of Germany's banking regulator BaFin. He warned on Aug. 1 that his country could be facing the worst banking crisis since 1931 - a reference to the collapse of Austria's Kredit Anstalt, which provoked a wave of bank failures across Europe. — Martin Walker

Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wholeheartedly to engage in the practice, so that it will affect your body, speech, and mind. — Ngagpa Yeshe Dorje