Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
Samādhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
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When I first started doing press, one of the things people started pushing was this idea that I'd somehow escaped something. And I was really offended, because I hadn't escaped anything.
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Ken Noland would use concentric circles; he'd want to get them in the middle of the painting because it's the easiest way to get them there, and he want them there in the front, on the surface of the canvas. If you're that much involved with the surface of anything, you're bound to find symmetry the most natural means.
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Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button.
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We are a people whom Allah gave might and glory to through Islam, so we will never seek glory through anything else.
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And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!
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I am a man of constant sorrow. I've seen trouble all my days.
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The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.
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People can just put their cash away and continue to make money and never give back because they just do not care, but I immediately felt obligated to use my influence for good things.
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I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
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The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.
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I've had lots of people say, 'Oh, Franchesca's content is just for white people.' But I try to talk about identity in a way that's accessible to lots of people and is not a pointed finger.
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How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans.
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The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor the left.
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They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.
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Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?
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Samādhi, as wholesome concentration, collects together the ordinarily dispersed and dissipated stream of mental states to induce an inner unification.
