Do you want to let yourself be defined by your possessions or by your job? I mean this as a serious question, because you could identify yourself with your job or your money or your possessions. Or you could identify yourself with your inner qualities and with happiness. It really is up to you.

17th Karmapa

from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out

translated by Ngodup Tsering Burkhar & Damchö Diana Finnegan


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Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:

• Capacity for Change
• Finding our nobility of heart
• Taking delight in your inner nature
• Difference without Division
• My trust is a gift
• There are no fixed starting points
• Loving Responsibility
• Boxed limitless potential
• Look what he did
• Our life is vast
• Just Love
• We truly have everything we need already
• Disconnected from our own noble heart
• Interdependent reality
• Our relationship to the material world
• Making healthy relationships possible
• Take joy in your sincere intentions
• Distinguishing between wants and needs
• Breaking barriers