Ajahn Chah Quotes
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.
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The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and terrorists are bad people. The ideals of these groups are in opposition to everything our nation stands for and everything that holds true to our founding principles. Their hatred of people dissimilar to them is un-American, and it should not be tolerated under any circumstances.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
