Ifs Quote by Ayya Khema Download Open image “If we do not try, we will not know.” — Ayya Khema ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Knows Trying
It is often thought that the Buddha's doctrine teaches us that suffering will disappear if one has meditated long enough, or if one sees… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going. — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“In meditation, we have to give ourselves totally, with no holding back. Whatever meditation subject we have chosen, we must become immersed in it;” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“The teaching of the Buddha is called the Dhamma. He did not teach Buddhism, any more than Jesus taught Christianity.” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“when the words we speak or write come from inner experience and are heartfelt, they are always imbued with “trembling for the welfare of… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.” — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such satisfaction with… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Unless we practice loving feelings toward everyone we meet, day in, day out, we're missing out on the most joyous part of life. If… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate. — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
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Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
