Blessing must arise from within your own mind. It is not something that comes from outside. When the positive qualities of your mind increase and the negativities decrease, that is what blessing means. The Tibetan word for blessing … means transforming into magnificent potential. Therefore, blessing refers to the development of virtuous qualities you did not previously have and the improvement of those good qualities you have already developed. ― Dalai Lama XIV
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Woman to Byron Katie: You think everything is perfect and yet we have all this suffering in the world, all this poverty, all this violence. How can that be perfection?
Katie: "Its a mirror. Ask: What is the violence in me that I cannot accept? Ask: What is my fear of death, of poverty? Is it true? Is there something wrong with death? It's a belief. All our pain comes from beliefs. We experience a thought and attach a belief to it. We see death and believe it’s evil. Who says? We look at the sky and say it’s blue. Is it? It’s simply an ancient myth. When I no longer fear my own death, I hold the dying child without fear. I look into that child’s eyes and he sees only peace. I cannot give him the belief that death is something to be feared. I cannot give what I do not have. What is not believed cannot be feared. I will be with him, in peace, to that very experience we call death because I no longer have that fear which prevents me from being present. For you – me.” (from A Cry in the Desert - The Awakening)   |
