Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our… — Dipa Ma Copy Share Image
...Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the… — John Galt Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a… — Denise Chavez Copy Share Image
The happiness we seek cannot be found through grasping, trying to hold on to things. It cannot be found through getting serious… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
This is where we go our seperate ways. Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging… — Buddhadasa Copy Share Image
If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding… — Yamada Koun Copy Share Image
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping.… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
We Are All the Same Listen to the reeds as they sway apart; Hear them speak of lost friends. At birth, you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It was in grasping the reality of his divine parentage as a son of God, as well as his relationship with Christ… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood – in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad;… — E. Urner Goodman Copy Share Image
There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target… — John Longenecker Copy Share Image
How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and… — James Spader Copy Share Image
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
