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Lunch with Buddha QUOTES

Lunch with Buddha QUOTES

1 " My father he always say that the oil is already inside the student, already there from all time. The teacher only has a match and makes it light, and then the student isn’t a student anymore, just a friend, going the same way down the dark road but seeing now by himself. "

― Roland Merullo , Lunch with Buddha

2 " The real work was the identification of those aspects of yourself that led to what he called “the negative emotions”—anger, envy, bitterness, greed, cynicism, hatred and the like—things that poured hurt into an already overfull world. "

― Roland Merullo , Lunch with Buddha

3 " We hadn’t yet traded freedom for comfort. "

― Roland Merullo , Lunch with Buddha

4 " I took one breath and realized I could be angry a bit later if I wanted to be angry. There would always be time for that. There was no rush. I could resist the reflex. And so I did. "

― Roland Merullo , Lunch with Buddha

5 " I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title “organized religion.” What, I wondered, was disorganized religion? "

― Roland Merullo , Lunch with Buddha

6 " JFK was an asylum, a processing plant, a study in chaos—snaking lines, recorded announcements, furious passengers with their taped-up baggage, clerks fielding complaints in the midst of the madness. For the better part of an hour "

― Roland Merullo , Lunch with Buddha