Goettens Quotes & Sayings

However when we talk about dependent arising or dependent origination in the Buddhist context, our understanding should not be limited to dependent arising only in terms of causes and conditions. Rather our understanding must embrace a broader and in some sense deeper understanding of dependence. Dependence need not necessarily be understood only in terms of causes and conditions; one can talk about dependence in relation to parts and the whole. The very concepts of parts and a whole are interconnected and interdependent. In some sense one emerges only in relationship to the other. Still there is a further and deeper understanding of dependent origination which is to understand dependent origination in terms of a designated basis and the designation that involves a labeling process. This view understands things and events in the form of mental constructs. — Dalai Lama XIV

Everyone is extremely hard and troubled to be around. Everyone has something substantially wrong with them. Everyone is extremely hard to live with. — Alain De Botton

To become completely healed is to become the healer - bringing the beauty and meaning you found into the world. — Alberto Villoldo

Sex is not the gateway to kindness. Your penis is not the hug I need at the end of the day. I don't need your penis. I need you to stop doing shit that makes me act like a bitch. — Heidi Clements

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by:
Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you. — Megan McCafferty

There are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to. — Joyce Meyer

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed — Rachel Bach

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. — Charles Ives

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied. — Plutarch