“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.”
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.”
“They who have gone beyond the duality of pain and pleasure have nothing to escape or chase.”
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.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“A desired thing often comes with seeds of at least one desire.”
“Reality is at least a billion trillions times less malleable than our desires.”
“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.”
“Destroying the seeds of disappointment requires you to unexpect the expected.”
“Thinking’ is in almost all cases a euphemism for ‘self-storytelling’.”
Source: P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms
“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.”
“We can realize, not that our mind is wandering, but that it was.”
“You cannot be unhappy, or even depressed, while you are not thinking.”