Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes

Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

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• Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Experience
  • Career
  • New York

• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Negative

• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Man
  • Black
  • Light

• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Experience
  • Change
  • Enemy

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Light
  • Things
  • Color

• We've got our own daylight to get bad thoughts away, and we talk with that light - our star in our heart. We take away what's unimportant.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Light

• I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Experience
  • Better
  • Doing

• Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

  

  Saint Basil
  • May
  • Light
  • Fall

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Stretch

• If you're having a very high-adrenaline, high-movement experience in virtual reality, and then all of a sudden you're back in your office, that disconnect is pretty notable. Whereas if you're using it for virtual reality teleconferencing... there's really no kind of impact moving back and forth between the real and the virtual world.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Know

• I believe that I will represent this sport in the best light possible. I won't mess it up. I won't get myself in any trouble.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Light

• The history of science-especially physics-has in part been the tension between the natural tendency to project our everyday experience on the universe and the universe's noncompliance...

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Experience
  • History
  • Science

• The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Experience
  • Gentleman

• A foot more light, a step more true,Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Light
  • Flower

• The best time to go to Las Vegas is during Christmastime, because there's no drug you can take that will recreate the experience of watching people gamble while they play Christmas carols. I'm Jewish, and I'm astonished. People going, 'GODDAMMIT!' 'JESUS CHRIST!' 'HOLY FUCK!' '...pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, me and my drum.'

  

  Lewis Black
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

  

  Liz Phair
  • Women
  • Experience

• Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Experience
  • Nature

• I am a patriot: I want to help my country and help it grow.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Country
  • Help

• Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

  

  Kay Hagan
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Church

• Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Experience
  • Light
  • Paint