Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
The mind itself—the seemingly solid, stable mind—dissolves into a stream of cittas flashing in and out of being moment by moment, coming from nowhere and going nowhere, yet continuing in sequence without pause.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.
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I like the pause that tea allows.
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
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We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
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Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart; The end lost in dream, They float past our view, We only watch their glad, early start. Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose; Their widening scope, Their distant employ, We never shall know. And the stream as it flows Sweeps them away, Each one is gone Ever beyond into infinite ways. We alone stay While years hurry on, The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.
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Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.
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As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
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It's funny, you go to Jerry's house, and he's got like dogs and a stream and he just hangs out...he doesn't have bikini dancers on every surface at his house, you know? We're easy-going guys.
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
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Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.
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Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.
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Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better
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There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everything be made clear and be brought into the light? Why keep things, archive your intimacies? Why not let thirty years of shared conversation go spiralling in ash up into the air of Tunbridge Wells? Just because you have it does not mean you have to pass it on. Losing things can something gain you a space in which to live.
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O sacred solitude! divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! envy of the great, By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.
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They were accustomed to think of the Abbé as one of those men who pass rapidly from point to point, from task to task, so intent on redeeming the time because the days are evil that they have no leisure to pause and enquire if perhaps the bad days have a few good points about them after all.
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God willing, even I might scrape a nomination.
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There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
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The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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The mind itself—the seemingly solid, stable mind—dissolves into a stream of cittas flashing in and out of being moment by moment, coming from nowhere and going nowhere, yet continuing in sequence without pause.
