Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
All these developments, naively accepted as "progress", threaten to blunt our aesthetic and spiritual sensitivities and deafen us to the higher call of the contemplative life.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
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I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.
Nate Ruess
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
Eddie Guerrero
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow
Saving a life overrides territories.
Ovadia Yosef
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
Young Jeezy
I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
Zhu Zhu
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.
Irving Berlin
'The solution lies in secrecy,' said Medra. 'But so does the problem.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal.
L. Frank Baum
The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.
Wallace Stevens
I don’t suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartare sauce.
P. G. Wodehouse
Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
I've got quite a good brain and all that, which I've never had to use in singing at all.
Marianne Faithfull
Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.
William Butler Yeats
My doctrine means that I must identify myself with life, with everything that lives, that I must share the majesty of life in the presence of God. The sum-total of this life is God. .. Man is not at peace with himself until he has become like unto God. The endeavor to reach this state is the supreme, the only ambition worth having. And this is self-realisation. This self-realisation is the subject of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures... to be a real devotee is to realise oneself. Self-realisation is not something apart.
Mahatma Gandhi
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
Adolf Hitler
All these developments, naively accepted as "progress", threaten to blunt our aesthetic and spiritual sensitivities and deafen us to the higher call of the contemplative life.
Bhikkhu Bodhi
