Alan Wallace Quotes

Alan Wallace offers sharp, plain-spoken reflections on morality and leadership, cutting through absurd ideas.

9 quotes

  1. 'Righteous hatred' is in the same category as 'righteous cancer' or 'righteous tuberculosis'. All of them are absurd concepts.

  2. The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for ... cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.

  3. Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

  4. The Opposite Of Lovee Is Indifferencee , Because Hate Doesnt Exist .

  5. Someones Lovee and Trust Is Not aa Gift , Its Somethinq That Is Earned

  6. Gettinq Attached Is The Problem , Because When They Leavee , Your Lost && No Ones There To Help You Find Yourself ,

  7. Your Body Is aa Blessinq , Your Mindd Is aa Giftt , But Your Heart Is What Makes Youu Puree && Beautifull

  8. You Will Get Hurt By Just About Anyonee , Its Juss You Have To Knoo Which One Is Worth The Sufferinq

  9. , UnHappiness Is Not Knowin What Youu Want , && Losinq Yourself Tryinq To Fiquree It Out ,