27 Quotes by Robert Thurman

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity.

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

I am daily making myself what I am.

Imagine a culture in which everything is geared toward helping all individuals become the best human beings they can be; in which individuals are driven to devoting their lives to becoming enlightened by the natural flood of compassion for others that arises from their wisdom.

Struggling with the world and having the problem of you vs. the world is a really big problem. You’re going to lose because the world is so much bigger than you, and longer lasting.