
Source: Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
Source: Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
Source: Understanding Our Mind: 50 Verses on Buddhist Psychology
“The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 622.
“If not belonging is a consequence for certain actions, there was no belonging in the first place.”
“The expense of a monument is superfluous; my memory will endure if my actions deserve it.”
Impensa monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostri durabit, si vita meruimus.
Letter 19, 6; quoting Frontinus.
Letters, Book IX
“My dreams are more amorous than my actions have ever been.”
“When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.”
Standup Comic (1999)