Ajahn Chah Quotes
Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I've learnt more physics from Kabbalah than I ever did in school.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
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In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
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The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.
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Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. … humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.
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You're always growing as a coach, and I am not done growing, and hopefully I'm not done winning.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
Chaka Fattah -
As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
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She walks-the lady of my delight-A shepherdess of sheep.Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;She keeps them from the steep
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We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.
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One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
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Some of the characters that I played as a kid were rebellious teenagers, and people would see those performances and project a particular image onto me. And 90 percent of the time, I would do everything I could to live up to that sort of image and be that individual.
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I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
