Bhikkhu Bodhi Quotes
Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.
Quotes to Explore
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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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.'
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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.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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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.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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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.
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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.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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They were most correct, according to their god.
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
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'The law is an expression of God's holy will and as such must be honored and loved,' said the preacher piously. 'Rubbish,' said the Master. 'The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant.'
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
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I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.
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You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting people have to understand. If only they would realize above all that an artist works of necessity, that he himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them. People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
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Delusion (moha) means mental darkness: the thick coat of insensitivity which blocks out clear understanding.
