Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Interpretation
Finding meaning in life drives you to pursue the future rather than dwell on the past.
This quote emphasizes the importance of discovering a purpose in life. When one identifies what is truly meaningful to them, it inspires a desire to move forward and continue growing, rather than being tethered to past experiences or regrets.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage students to focus on their future aspirations.
People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims....and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? I'm almost......drawn to them.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back
It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.
When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.
The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.
Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
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