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Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.
— Henepola Gunaratana
You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.
— Henepola Gunaratana
No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed.
— Henepola Gunaratana
The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.
— Henepola Gunaratana
We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.
— Henepola Gunaratana
Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.
— Henepola Gunaratana
The way to deal with danger is to know approximately how much of it there is, where it is likely to be found, and how to deal with it when it arises.
— Henepola Gunaratana
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.
— Henepola Gunaratana
Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.
— Henepola Gunaratana
Meditation changes your character.
— Henepola Gunaratana
If we would venture more upon the naked promise of God, we should enter a world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Pain and suffering are two different animals.
— Henepola Gunaratana
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
— William Hague
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
— Henepola Gunaratana
Each step along the Buddha's path to happiness requires practising mindfulness until it becomes part of your daily life.
— Henepola Gunaratana
You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.
— Henepola Gunaratana
You want to build something what's been tore down, choose a woman. You want to tear something down, choose a man.
— Adrian Selby
Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.
— Henepola Gunaratana
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
— Henepola Gunaratana
For I am bound with fleshly bands,
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope. — Christina Rossetti
Joy, beauty, lie beyond my scope;
I strain my heart, I stretch my hands,
And catch at hope. — Christina Rossetti
When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.
— Henepola Gunaratana
I try and maintain a little bit of fitness, man.
— Frank Bruno
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
— Henepola Gunaratana
Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
— Victoria Wood
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— Isabel Allende