

“You don’t have to be a
philosopher; you just have to want to know who you are”
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead
philosopher; you just have to want to know who you are”
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead

“The task is ... not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees.”
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“In modern science the methods of analysis are principally applied to investigating the nature of material entities. Thus, the ultimate nature of matter is sought through a reductive process and the macroscopic world is reduced to the microscopic world of particles. Yet, when the nature of these particles is further examined, we find that ultimately their very existence as objects is called into question.”
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
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“The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don’t care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha”
― The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
― The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa
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