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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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at 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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We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.
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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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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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An only child alone and wildA cabinet maker's son.His hands were meant for different workAnd his heart was known to none -He left his home and went his lone and solitary wayAnd he gave to me a gift I knowI never can repay.
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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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I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
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I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.
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The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.
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Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.
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I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.
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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.
