Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes

Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

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• Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
  • Tough

• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Player
  • Personality
  • Model

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • For Her

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Reading

• The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Love
  • Home
  • Food

• A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Day
  • Writer
  • Plant

• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Great
  • Understand
  • India

• The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Human

• I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

  

  Wayne White
  • Country
  • Children
  • Done

• That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

  

  Luis Fonsi
  • Important

• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

  

  William Booth
  • World
  • Men
  • Passion

• I don’t know why one can’t chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Time
  • Why
  • Words

• Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.

  

  Pawan Kalyan
  • Life
  • School
  • Power

• Peace comes through understanding.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Peace
  • Understanding
  • Through

• Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Understanding
  • Darkness
  • Insensitivity