“Like spirituality, insanity frees us from the addiction to happiness.”
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Famous Mokokoma Mokhonoana Quotes
“Happiness that was pursued comes greatly diluted by the pursuit.”
“Our being happy eventually irritates our mind into finding an excuse for us to be unhappy.”
“Some people are unknowingly engaged in the pursuit of unhappiness.”
“It is a sign of spiritual maturity to care about people, but not about how they are doing.”
“Life cannot, not even for a millisecond, remain exactly how it is.”
“To be pained by someone’s death is to make their death about you.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Like great ecologists, great pessimists make us see the beauty of death.”
“No matter how long you are going to live, you are going to die now.”
“Living is the outside of dying.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“Thinking protects us against experiencing the overwhelming wonderfulness of life.”
“We are sometimes forced by nature to feel like having sex, but never to have sex.”
“Meditation produces, in an awake man, calmness that rivals that of a sleeping boy.”
“Disease intensifies narcissism, especially if it is terminal.”
“We start living in heaven as soon as we leave life … the hell alone.”
“Our mind can be in heaven while our body is in hell. And vice versa.”
“What is happening is both reality and reality in the making.”
“What is happening is life’s way of telling us what should be happening.”
“Prayer is usually a desperate attempt to wish something into or out of reality.”
“Meditation is the most fruitful form of rest during which we are awake.”
“Giving in to sleep is a great opportunity to practice letting go of life.”
“Some of those whose existence you wish could end now do not even know about your existence.”