Ann Brashares Quotes

As far as our physical form, the mind is a great temple. But it has a life span and it dies.

That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

I'm spiritual.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

One of the lines in the Benedictine monastery is to keep death daily before your eyes, which never hurts in politics.

I am interested in suffering and, in particular, the Buddhist idea that in pain, you can find beauty.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.

I'm actually very spiritual.

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.

It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of meditation;Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.

I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff

O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!