"Rigpa is what is left, what remains, in the absence of all grasping, all labeling, all reification. And only rigpa knows rigpa."
Alan Wallace.
"Por cierto que las pruebas y los retos son constantes, pero la sensación de estar puesto a prueba es muy diferente del sentimiento que uno tiene en el mundo del sol poniente, en que se siente condenado a cargar con su mundo y sus problemas. Sucede que la gente se asusta ante esta visión del Sol del Gran Este."
Chögyam Trungpa, Shambhala. La senda sagrada del guerrero.
"They recalled the fresh young image of the Handsome Sailor, that face never deformed by a sneer or subtler vile freak of the heart within. This impression of him was doubtless deepened by the fact that he was gone, and in a measure mysteriously gone."
Herman Melville, Billy Budd, sailor.
"And yet all this appearances that seem to be out there are no more really out there than I am really in here. Two empty poles, like a spectrum [...]; this subjective pole has nothing in it and the objective pole has nothing in it; and everything in between is dependent origination." B. Alan Wallace.
"Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other?"
Herman Melville, Billy Budd, sailor.
"In short, the last man in the world, one would think, to be over-burdened with thoughts, especially those perilous thoughts that must needs belong to a conspirator in any serious project, or even to the underling of such a conspirator." Herman Melville, Billy Budd, sailor.
"... but you understand only money, and the power you think it buys. So why waste my time indeed?" Talia-Al-Gul, The Dark Knight rises.
"A wizard is never late, no is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to." Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring.