Ajahn Brahm · 288 pages
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“We should always be grateful for the faults in our partner because if they didn't have those faults from the start, they would have been able to marry someone much better than us”
“To think that you will be happy by becoming something else is delusion. Becoming something else just exchanges one form of suffering for another form of suffering. But when you are content with who you are now, junior or senior, married or single, rich or poor, then you are free of suffering.”
“Tugovati znači vidjeti samo ono što vam je oduzeto. Slavljenje života znači prepoznati sve čime smo blagoslovljeni i osjećati zahvalnost.”
“Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you.”
“Any place you don´t want to be, no matter how comfortable, is a prison for you.”
“Why allow other people to control your inner happiness?”
“Mass action by everyday black people was just as powerful a tool for social change as the lawsuit, and maybe more so. If”
“You've got the sexiest voice. You make everything you say sound like it tastes good coming out of your mouth.”
“All of us are flawed. It is our responsibility to find ways around those inherent issues.”
“So I've been thinking. Do you believe there's a hell?"
"Sure. Doesn't everybody?"
"Well, what if this is hell, but we just don't know it?"
"That's crazy. Hell is like lakes of fire, and there are devils with horns and pitchforks. here's none of those around here."
"But what if hell's not really like that?" Grace asked.
"Everyone says it's that way," I said.
"I don't think Jesus every talked about fire and brimstone."
"Then why do they teach us that at church?"
"To scare us."
"Why would they want to scare us?"
"I don't know. I just don't think God wants us to do good things because we're scared. I think he wants us to do good things because we're good.”
“The modern world, he thought resentfully, prepares you very poorly for the tests it puts you to.”
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