Don’t Wait

David Price
4 min readDec 1, 2023
Jef Bourgeau, “James River Trail (Blue Ridge),” 2023

Do not wait until you are dying

to understand your spiritual nature.

If you do it now, you will discover resources of kindness and compassion you didn’t know you had. It is from this mind of intrinsic wisdom and compassion that you can truly benefit others.

~ Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, ‘Life In Relation To Death’

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Buddha nature is not a special quality available to just a privileged few.

~ Mingyur Rinpoche

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Religion is a belief system that extracts your relationship from the consciousness of the Earth. It leads you into a “monastic oneness” and places you into a vulnerable situation where you are constantly looking for a “connection”. And you spend the rest of your life rationalizing why you feel lost, dazed and confused because that ‘belief system’ consumed any chance of understanding and replaced it with ritualistic knowledge…

The Earth is real, not a ‘belief’ system. Mystery is real, don’t try to solve it, save it, shoot it, nor science it…

— Tiokasin Ghosthorse

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Sooner or later something seems to call us towards a particular path. You may remember the ‘something’ as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a

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David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.