Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
While experiencing painful feeling, he seeks delight in sensual pleasure. For what reason? Because the uninstructed worldling does not know of any escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. When he seeks delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling lies behind this. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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I am a danger to myself if I get angry.
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I think I'd be a good dad; it would be a pleasure.
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My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
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Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.
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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.
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I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
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I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
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So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.
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In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument, and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
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While experiencing painful feeling, he seeks delight in sensual pleasure. For what reason? Because the uninstructed worldling does not know of any escape from painful feeling other than sensual pleasure. When he seeks delight in sensual pleasure, the underlying tendency to lust for pleasant feeling lies behind this. He does not understand as it really is the origin and the passing away, the gratification, the danger, and the escape in the case of these feelings.
