11 Quotes by Eliot Pattison

Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Lhadrung.

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan

I tell them that the only peace you find up on a mountain is the peace you bring with you.

If you are not careful your soul will wear out long before your body.

I said I was looking for the temple of the saints, in order to find myself. He told me I didn’t need the temple, he would show me all I needed to know. Here is what it takes, he said, and he set his burden on the ground and stood straight. “But what do I do when I go home? I asked. Simple, he said. When you go home you do this – and he put the burden back on his shoulder.

You need to let the spirits have their way Shan.

Our demons, they have a way of becoming self-fulfilling.

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