Ajahn Chah Quotes
Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also. This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
Ajahn Chah
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Black Star
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Barton Gellman
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Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.
Taliesin
We are not going to continue until we hear the fucking roof rattle.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
Oὐ γὰρ δοκεῖν ἄριστος, ἀλλ᾽ εἶναι θέλει
Aeschylus
I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Jessie Buckley
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Barack Obama
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I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.
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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also. This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
Ajahn Chah
