Ajahn Chah Quotes
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I never lie to my fans.
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If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
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I always liked spy stories.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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I hate cardio; I hate to go for a run. I hate physical things. But Jiu Jitsu is fun because its self-defence and you get some good cardio.
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Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
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I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
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I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.
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The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.
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Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.
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For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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I love the chance to train with someone like Mark Twight.
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Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
