14 Quotes by B. Alan Wallace

Settling your mind in its natural state entails releasing all grasping, grasping onto the future, and the past, grasping onto cogitations about the present. Letting your awareness rest in its own place, naturally luminous and still.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds.

Samsara is not out there, but rather in the way that we experience our environment. To target it precisely, samsara is in the quality of our minds. Our minds are not functioning in accord with reality, and therein lies the problem.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or ‘nowness:’ but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

In Buddhism, consciousness is central because all phenomena are realized to be mere appearances to consciousness that have no independent existence.