Ajahn Chah Quotes
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
Ajahn Chah
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... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.
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The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth.
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I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than raw power. They do not respond, at least in the short run, to either gentle kindness or any form of spiritual persuasion with which I am familiar.
M. Scott Peck
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He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.
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That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
Matthieu Ricard
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
Ajahn Chah