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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“The shortest sentence that adequately describes life is as long as the universe.”
“Watching the Dance of Life tends to make us forget that we are part of the dance.”
“Life is a symphony to the wise. And a cacophony to the foolish.”
“You cannot really convince a man who has always been blind that he does not see.”
“The most fruitful breaks are often those we are or were forced to take by life.”
“Life would not seem short if we valued time as much as we value money.”
“A person is as much a thought when alive as he or she will be when dead.”
“Thinking’ is in almost all cases a euphemism for ‘self-storytelling’.”
“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 cannot really experience something while we are thinking, not even the act of thinking.”
“Happiness is an inevitable result of embracing, and unhappiness that of rejecting, what is.”
“We make life even more painful by having expectations and preferences.”
“The emotions we feel, and the desires and thoughts we have, are as ours as the sounds we hear.”
“All we can really do is nothing but be aware. In fact, we are nothing but awareness.”
“Realizing that God or Nature did not give you free will will free you.”
“Unlike happiness, unhappiness cannot happen without the presence of an ego.”
“Society mainly uses the concept of self to make the individual less unpredictable.”
“Unlike that of a society, the spiritual or intellectual awakening of a person is irreversible.”