Browse quotes tagged 'Hardship.' "Many things can cause a loss of balance. One cause is danger, another is hardship, and another is surprise." - Miyamoto Musashi
Throughout this pandemic, we have seen how medical personnel have daily put their own lives at risk, unflinching in the face of hardship, overcoming all kinds of insurmountable obstacles. This has been an extraordinary show of courage. In our case, courage can take the face of spiritual practi...
concluding, “I don’t know why he did it, as he neither enjoys me carnally nor eats me.” The king found the demon and questioned him about his behaviour: “Why did you bring the Brahmin’s wife here, night-wanderer? For she is certainly no beauty; you could find ...
We can do no greater harm to ourselves than not to think about impermanence. Where impermanence is not properly understood, everything samsaric becomes important and a seemingly reasonable cause to accomplish, when in fact life is as fragile as a bubble. We cannot really say whether the next ...
although the event may now simply be a memory because the motivation and deeds were good, even today when we read about them, it gives us a comfortable feeling, ‘Oh, such and such a person was really great; he did such noble work.’ And even today we can see traces of work undertak...