Ajahn Chah Quotes
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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Ernie Hudson was new to the comedy world, and being the fourth Ghostbuster, he would have ideas, and he would talk to Ivan Reitman, and Ivan would kind of put him off. I could see how disappointed he was.
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And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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Some misunderstandings are hard to cure.
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I like action-adventure movies.
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I love to prune. I have a physical need to do things.
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I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend - just as if it were a novel - very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
