I have gotten to love this one website called "The Daily enlightenment." It has simple reflections for each day. It's awesome cause these will actually make you think. So I'm just putting a couple on here since they won't fit on my profile.
The Truth cannot be conceived.
It can only be experienced.
Do not think you can think of the Truth.
All you can do is see it.
The Buddha did not imagine or concoct the Truth;
He saw it.
Thus, in meditation,
do not think, just see.
Meditation in the end is just two things -
stilling your mind so that you can look at it so clearly,
that you realize the naked Truth about everything.
Once you think about the Truth,
it is just a thought about it,
not Truth itself.
When you seek Truth like a thing,
all you get are traces of it,
but not it.
Treasure everything you have in the moment,
because it is only here in the moment.
Be unattached to everything you have in the moment,
because it is only here in the moment.
Balance these in the moment
and you are on the Middle Path.
This one is especially good because it is about desires and I have talked to a bunch of people about it while we discussed religion.
Any desire that leads
to undesirable effects
or to more desires
is undesirable.
The only desire that leads
to the totally desirable,
to the end of all desires,
is the aspiration for Enlightenment.
And even that has to be let go of in good time.
~The Daily enlightenment
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