Ajahn Chah Quotes
The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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My heart is closer to acting than singing. It's always been that way.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.
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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.
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Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.
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Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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The Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah’s created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart.
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Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
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The laughter cameWhen the tears stopped falling.Now all I do is just call your name(When I say lover)You walked in and my heart discoveredThat my life would never be the same.Oh, you are my destiny.You are my one and only.You gave that joy to meWhen my whole life was lonely.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
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I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.
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From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.
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Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.
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No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
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For while the tired waves vainly breakingSeem here no painful inch to gain,Far back, through creeks and inlets making,Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
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The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
