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   -- Tulku Thondup, from "The Heart of Unconditional Love: A Powerful New
      Approach to Loving-Kindness Meditation", published by Shambhala
      Publications
+~
+Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics,
+its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who
+glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about
+the Holocaust.
+  -- Mike Godwin, on "Godwin's Law", originated in 1990, which (paraphrasing)
+     states that any online discussion will eventually devolve into a
+     comparison with Hitler or Nazism.  At that point, the person who brought
+     either topic up has lost the argument and their basic credibility.
+~
+Your mind, the primordial buddha,
+Searches elsewhere due to the power of desire.
+Doesn’t it notice that it is wandering in samsara?
+
+Now that you have obtained the precious human body,
+You continuously get carried away by mundane actions.
+Don’t you notice that your life is running out?
+  -- Padmasambhava
+~
+    The key to understanding the truth of suffering is what the Buddha called
+the “three marks” of everything that exists.  All conditioned phenomena,
+he said, are pervaded by these three marks: impermanence (anitya),
+dissatisfaction or suffering (duhkha), and insubstantiality (anatman,
+“without self”).
+    According to the Buddha, if we do not understand how conditioned phenomena
+are marked by these three aspects, then we will not be able to understand the
+first Noble Truth.  We may do all we can in order to avoid facing the fact
+that everything is contingent and transient—we may try to hide ourselves
+from it, and we may even spin out all kinds of metaphysical theories of an
+unchanging, permanent, substantial reality to avoid this all-pervasive nature
+of ephemerality.  Also, if we do not understand that conditioned phenomena are
+unsatisfactory, we will not think about restraining ourselves from
+overindulgence in sensory gratifications, which makes us lose our center and
+become immersed in worldly concerns, so that our life is governed by greed,
+craving, and attachment.  All of these things disturb the mind.
+    If we do not understand that everything is insubstantial—anatman—then
+we may believe that there is some kind of enduring essence or substance in
+things, or in the personality, and because of this belief we generate delusion
+and confusion in the mind.
+  -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "The Essence of Buddhism", published by Shambhala
+     Publications