Tshepiso Gospel Quotes & Sayings

Whether or not the historical Buddha actually suffered from the kind of primitive agonies Winnicott expounded upon, the meditations he taught in the aftermath of his awakening "hold" the mind just as Winnicott described a mother "holding" an infant. In making the observational posture of mindfulness central to his technique, the Buddha established another version of "an auxiliary ego-function" in the psyches of his followers, one that enabled them, to go back to his metaphor of pulling out an arrow, to tend to their own wounds with both their minds and their hearts. Far from eliminating the ego, as I naively believed I should when I first began to practice meditation, the Buddha encouraged a strengthening of the ego so that it could learn to hold primitive agonies without collapse. — Mark Epstein

No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late. — Michelle Obama

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,' — Ezra Pound

A coin is turned around before it is handed to the beggar, yet a child is unflinchingly tossed into cosmic bruteness. — Peter Wessel Zapffe

If you say that something is impossible, you take your place amongst the losers, may be not immediately, but definitely for the future! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some people in Nigeria photographed us together and are threatening to publish the pictures, but that's not news to anyone. — Paulo Coelho

Attentiveness is the heart of prayer. — Simone Weil

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell. — Gail Collins