{"author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. (47).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["all-beings","belief","believe","doctrine","teachers","teaching","tradition","welfare"],"id":5820,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"In certain situations, manifesting anger is the right attitude; in others it is not the right thing to manifest because it will only add to the violence. In the first case, anger unblocks the conflict and causes another to become more conscious. In the latter, it only adds to the unconsciousness and inflames the conflict. (73).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["anger","attitude","conflict","consciousness","expression","peace","violence"],"id":49762,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["breakups","emotional-wounds","happiness","hardships","self-image","suffering","true-happiness","well-being"],"id":53319,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"Sometimes the best answer to a question is another question. Is it not by asking questions that we stimulate each other to reach more deeply into our own source and, thereby, approach the Source, both together and in our different ways? (7).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["answers","questioning","seeking","source","spirituality"],"id":138752,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! (117).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["criticism","praise","right-speech","self-awareness","self-criticism","speaking"],"id":139691,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["acceptance","equanimity","knowledge","meditation","mind","reality","simplicity","transcendence"],"id":160770,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["compassion","depth","life","living"],"id":173208,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["ego","monkey-mind","spiritual-practices","spirituality"],"id":189848,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["actions","bodhisattva","buddhism","buddhist","christ","christianity","death","generosity","inspiration","joy","meditation","peace","resurrection","service","words"],"id":225095,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"},{"text":"[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe’s, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78).","author":"Jean-Yves Leloup","tags":["compassion","depression","illness","suffering","well-being"],"id":241079,"author_id":"Jean-Yves+Leloup"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}