"How easily we allow our old habits and set patterns to dominate us! Even though, as Nyoshul Khenpo's poem tells us, they bring us suffering, we accept them with almost fatalistic resignation, for we are so used to giving into them. We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits we are completely enslaved.
Still reflection can slowly bring us wisdom. We can come to see we are falling again and again into fixed repetitive patterns, and begin to long to get out of them. We may, of course, fall back into them, again and again, but slowly we can emerge from them and change."
page 31 "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" by Sogyal Rinpoche
Other authors I have gained knowledge/perspective/wisdom from are Chogyam Trungpa (a Tibetan Buddhist monk), J. Krishnamurti (Spiritual teacher) and G.I. Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff's premise being that we, who call ourselves "human beings" are more aptly described as sleeping machines, who merely do out of habit....he emphasized Waking up to our Self...to Remember who the Inner Awake Self truly is....to know and be aware of WHY we do what we do..and then making a CHOICE in how we Be in regard to the situation at hand.
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