Gautama Buddha Quotes

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

Gautama Buddha

• Intimacy
• Attains
• Abudance

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• Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Acting

• I am not against any kind of physical intimacy on screen, but kissing is a big no unless it's with Jennifer. I'd like to kiss her on-screen as we do it at home, too. If we get paid for it, that's even better.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Home
  • Kiss
  • Intimacy

• The immediacy of improvisation is intoxicating, but there's an intimacy that you get that's very different when you're doing drama.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Different
  • Drama
  • Intimacy

• 'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Different
  • Book
  • Couple

• The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Work
  • House
  • Beautiful

• I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.

  

  Benny Green
  • People
  • Up
  • Intimacy

• When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • God
  • Experience
  • Intimacy

• Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • World
  • Alone
  • Communication

• Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Funny
  • Attention
  • Intimacy

• Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Real
  • Intimacy

• The only thing I have never known is true intimacy with a man. I absolutely wanted to discover that before dying.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • True
  • Dying
  • Intimacy

• I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Intimacy

• Muslims have great reverence in their prayers but not much intimacy.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Great
  • Intimacy

• I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • Life
  • Intimacy

• What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Friends
  • Intimacy

• I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

  

  Armand Assante
  • People
  • Great
  • Intimacy

• For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Community
  • Trust
  • Intimacy

• The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Eyes

• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Teacher
  • Speak
  • Librarian

• All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Opposites
  • Subject
  • Emerges

• Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Intimacy
  • Attains
  • Abudance