“We experience the highest degree of pleasure when our awareness is focused on our awareness.”
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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“More than half of sexual pleasure comes from being in the present moment.”
“To chase pleasure is to be chased by pain.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“The problem with pleasure is that it needs to be intermittent in order to retain its pleasantness.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“We make life painful or difficult by wanting … and by preferring.”
“Some deeds are fuelled by the desire to be, or to seem, desireless.”
“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”
“A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.”
“An untamed mind is usually doing its level best to attain or to retain unhappiness.”
“Listening to a good song is usually consolation for being unable to enjoy silence.”
“The shortest sentence that adequately describes life is as long as the universe.”
“Life is a symphony to the wise. And a cacophony to the foolish.”
“To make man superman, add the word ‘super’ to the word ‘man’; or meditation to his day.”
“Mindfulness is the difficult art of simply replacing thinking with experiencing.”
“Thinking’ is in almost all cases a euphemism for ‘self-storytelling’.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“You do not think. You are thought … and therefore a thought.”
“We are alive the most when we are awake but our mind is not.”
“The mind cannot really rest or be still: it is either busy, or non-existent.”
“We can realize, not that our mind is wandering, but that it was.”
“Only about two percent of one percent of our thoughts deserve to be taken seriously.”