Wumen Huikai Quotes

The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.

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• By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Mess
  • Mid-20s

• When your mother dies, it really hurts. But with time, you get used to it. That's nature's way.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Mother
  • Dies
  • Hurts

• Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Faith
  • Friend
  • Enemies

• They're looking at the cold weather coming. That's what you're seeing in the market right now.

  

  Michael Rose Black Uhuru
  • Cold
  • Looking
  • Market

• Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • People
  • Love
  • Way

• In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Night
  • Justice
  • Wonder

• “Heather resented it that this woman was his daughter. How does a writer of the most subtle, serious fiction end up with a daughter who watches Oprah? I’d be a better daughter for him than she is.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Woman
  • Daughter
  • Writer

• I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Chance
  • Historian
  • Novelists

• I deal in volume. To sell volume, it must be affordable. So that's my whole life, is to make it affordable.

  

  Harry Triguboff
  • Life
  • Deal
  • Volume

• Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

  

  William James
  • Technology
  • Purpose
  • Claims

• Illiteracy must be banished from the land if we shall attain that high destiny as the foremost of the enlightened nations of the world which, under Providence, we ought to achieve.

  

  William McKinley
  • World
  • Destiny
  • Achieve

• To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Yourself
  • Enlightened

• Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Trying
  • Walks
  • Buddhist

• There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another one to replace it. But the moments of your life aren't like that. Once they're gone, they'll never return. Each and every one is the most precious thing in existence. You can never meaningfully compare one moment with any other. You can never meaningfully compare your life with anyone else's. No matter how rich someone else may be, no matter how happy they look, no matter how enlightened they seem, they can never be you. Never, ever, ever. Only you can live your life.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Life
  • Existence
  • Rich

• It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Funny
  • Attention

• She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind.

  

  David Bowie
  • Mind
  • Dangerous

• The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Enlightened
  • Causation