Ajahn Chah Quotes

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

Ajahn Chah

• Mind
• Calm
• Meditation
• Insight
• Concentration

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• One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Good
  • Darkest

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • American
  • Always
  • Legacy

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Best
  • Boxing

• Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Childhood
  • Nobody
  • Where

• I was so lucky to have parents who supported me, 100%, with whatever I was doing, both financially and emotionally. Having that they made my life so much easier. Instead of becoming a bartender and trying to survive while trying to pursue your dreams, I didn't have to worry about that aspect. I could just pursue my dreams.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Parents

• Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Home
  • House

• If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Commitment

• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Job
  • Play

• It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Always
  • Start
  • Circle

• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Progress
  • Name
  • Determined

• No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. I live for this jersey. It's my life. No one's taking it away from me. This fucking jersey's mine.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Life
  • Live

• Beulah, Peel me a grape.

  

  Mae West

• The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Thinking
  • Acceptance
  • Rejection

• Some weird blue sh*t that someone gave me during our 1992 Australian tour. I didn't eat it.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Weird
  • Eat
  • During

• I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Universe
  • Religious
  • Audience

• There ought to be but one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works, and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is, one must be half a tradesman.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • World
  • Art

• It's a hard thing for me to wrap my mind around the C word: celebrity. Rock stars are celebrities because they're larger than life. As an actor, you have to play the everyman and the everygirl. If you start treating people in the real world like assistants, that's not a good look. But my friends keep me grounded.

  

  Channing Tatum
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Sometimes

• Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mind
  • Calm
  • Meditation