"A truly happy person is someone who is……" — Ayya Khema
"A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions."
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14 Quotes by Ayya Khema
Ayya Khema has 14 quotes on this site.
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If we divide into two camps--even into violent and the nonviolent--and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the…
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If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make…
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As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual…
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The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the…
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Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material…
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Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have…
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If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are…
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Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.
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The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and…
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It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough,…
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Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways.…
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We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual…
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More Conditions Quotes
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one of 1,685 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
— Hannah Arendt
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The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently;…
— Aristotle
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally…
— Karen Armstrong
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We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's…
— Margaret Atwood
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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle…
— Bernard Baruch
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always…
— Jane Addams
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to…
— Annie Besant
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