Buddism Quote by Alan Cohen Download Open image ““Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.”” — Alan Cohen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Buddism Inner-stillness Inspirational Motivational Serenity Spirituality-quotes
“In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.” — Will Mancini Copy Share Image
“When we stop pushing against life and lean into what is, we become more aware and focused.” — Shannon Kaiser Copy Share Image
“When we stop pushing we realize that it was all for habit, fear, envy, or greed. In the calmness after the strife we often… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.” — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.” — Robert E. Fisher Copy Share Image
“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.” — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.” — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“newspaper ads for lost pets and earthquakes that soon follow. Other studies indicate a higher rate of last-minute cancellations for airplane flights that crash.… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Quit using your creative power to formulate questions. You can just as easily—more easily— use it to formulate answers.” — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
'How can I be more like you?' she asked the guru. 'The best way to be more like me is to be more like… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Turmoil is a call for awakening. Every challenge, great or small, is moving you to look deeper and draw forth the highest in you.… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Even my Buddhist friends have been feeling despair and when they go bad, you know the end is nigh.” — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.” — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.” — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God for every state other than unbelief and misguidance.” — Master Nursi Copy Share Image
“The problem is that our world and our education remain focused exclusively on external, materialistic values. We are not concerned enough with inner values. Those who grow up with this kind of education live in a materialistic life and eventually the whole society becomes materialistic. But this culture is not sufficient to tackle our human problems. The real problem is… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share
“Imagine a great net spread across the universe. Each juncture is a “being,” and if we imagine that consciousness as a drop of dew,… — Sandy Boucher Copy Share Image
“Grandfather Shi must have loved Ita Thao. His relatives were certainly making his last hours there memorable ones. Though the ceremony did not have strippers (at least none that we saw), there was no shortage of other elements designed to produce 'hot noise' that's an indispensable feature of any Taiwanese funeral. Designed to celebrate the life of the deceased and… — Joshua Samuel Brown Copy Share
“The first principle is that the business should be successful: that it should make money. There is a belief prevalent in America and other… — Geshe Michael Roach Copy Share Image
“Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations.” — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
