The real enemy of happiness is the mind's fixations and delusions... If you have the right mind, you can overcome anything -… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Get your emotions under control and your life under control. Work really hard and don't make a big deal out of yourself.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost… — Jeff Mills Copy Share Image
“When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when… — Geoffrey S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's hard for your mom to tell you she has an oral fixation and has to have something in her mouth. My… — David Spade Copy Share Image
The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Letting go of fixation is effectively a process of learning to be free, because every time we let go of something, we… — Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Furthermore, [Sigmund Freud] had a racial fixation on sex, a fixation sufficiently pronounced to cause it to infect contagiously all modern European… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Naming is like putting a stamp on something and fixing it. A kind of formaldehyde sort of fixation, but it becomes dead,… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“I thought of nothing but her. I expected everything from her. I was ready to lay everything at her feet. I was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When they are truly into something, they are absolutely single-minded in their fixation. They give it all they have. They throw heaps… — Aoko Matsuda Copy Share Image
What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image