Brian Weiner

Tag: motivational quotes

Life has many different chapters, don’t let one bad one ruin the book.
Some people consider Buddhism to be a religion, others see it as a spiritual practice, and still others as a philosophy of life. I think of the Buddha as a master psychologist because he understood the human condition, including how our thoughts, speech, and actions can intensify our suffering and how we can find relief from that suffering.
Until you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.
Belief in Oneself
Everyone wants to be the sun to brighten someone’s life, but why not be the moon to shine on someone’s darkest hour?
Being kind is more important than being right. What people often need is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a caring heart that listens.
What if our religion was each other? If our practice was our life. If prayer, our words. What if the temple was the Earth? If forests were our church. The holy water – the rivers, lakes, and oceans. What if meditation was our relationships? If the teacher was life. If wisdom was self knowledge. If love was the center of our being?
It is not the greatness of a man’s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go and move on.