Ayya Khema Quotes
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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.
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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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You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
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The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
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Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.
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Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
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I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.
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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
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The more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.
