Ayya Khema Quotes

The more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

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• Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

  

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• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
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• It would be right to state that, with the successful flight of the XR-4 in the summer of 1942, the helicopter became a reality in the United States.

  

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• The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

  

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• The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

  

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• For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

  

  Adolf Hitler
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• You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!

  

  William Shakespeare
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• Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Grunge

• They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Father
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• A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Purpose
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• Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
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  • Mass

• He who hears not me but the logos will say: All is one.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Say
  • Hears
  • Logos

• The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.

  

  Gautama Buddha
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• It's not reckless, because when we leap, when we dive in, when we begin, only begin, we bring our true nature to the project, we make it personal and urgent. And it's not abandon, not in the sense that we've abandoned our senses or our responsibility. In fact, abandoning the fear of fear that is holding us back is the single best way not to abandon the work, the pure execution of the work. Later, there's time to backpedal and water down. But right now, reckless please.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Responsibility
  • Water
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• A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Rock
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• There is a willingness on the European side to return to the negotiations. In November, there is another meeting in Vienna with all the heads of the countries that form part of the board of the International (Atomic) Energy Agency.

  

  Javier Solana
  • European
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• The more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

  

  Ayya Khema
  • Abandon
  • Meditate
  • Ill-Will