Ching Hai Quotes
Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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If you feel that you can just come in the studio and freestyle on my song, then I'm ready to rap battle you. That's just how I feel about it because I know I'm way harder than another rapper freestyling on my song.
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Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing, either includes the non-existence of that thing or the non-existence of some of its good conditions.
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'Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good (afternoon/evening) to you, wherever you may be.'
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
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I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
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When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
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If you catch me coming out of a film, when I'm emotionally involved, I can tell you at that moment why I like it – but to talk about it years later is not logical to me.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
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Only by spiritual practice can we break through our karma and the effects of the causes we have made. Only then can we escape from them. It matters not whether you have acquired any merit. Merit is merit. Karma is karma. Nonetheless, if one practices the Quan Yin Method, one can be liberated regardless of having any merit or not. It is so logical, so scientific.
