Hakuin Ekaku Quotes

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

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• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Day

• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Down
  • Calm
  • Storm

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Free
  • Training
  • Enjoy

• Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Servant
  • Recollection

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Team

• Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Something
  • Say
  • Will

• High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Eating
  • Lead

• I am certain that Gadi Lesin's abilities and the experience he accumulated during his sixteen years in a variety of general management roles in Strauss Group in and outside of Israel will enable him, together with group management and all managers and employees of Strauss, to continue to take the group forward to further success.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Success

• The bad boys get all the best lines.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Lines

• Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.

  

  Edgar Cayce

• To this day, I hate walnuts and I hate onions because on weekends when the walnuts and onions were in season, we were out there first thing in the morning and out there until the sun went down topping onions or picking walnuts.

  

  Scott Brooks
  • Hate
  • Morning
  • Weekend

• It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves?

  

  Neil Harbisson
  • Why
  • Simple
  • Car

• I find often I'm wandering around the park with my kids, and I notice something, and I think, 'Oh, I could come up with a clever Facebook post about that.' It's like, 'Wait a minute - that's not what I should be thinking. I should be present in the moment with my kids.'

  

  Marshall Curry
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

  

  bell hooks
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Art

• You know an action is the correct one for you because you don't think, "This is costing me my power." I can be tired after a day's work at the right job, but I'm not psychically drained to where I feel like I'm losing life.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Tired

• The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Thinking
  • Meditation