Conditions Quote by Bodhidharma Download Open image “As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.” — Bodhidharma ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conditions Death Mortals Ourselves Ruled
It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
If you see your nature, you don't need to read sutras or invoke buddhas. Erudition and knowledge are not only useless but also cloud… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. . . . The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises where they meet. When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind… — Bodhidharma Copy Share
Many roads lead to the Path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
All Buddhas preach emptiness. Why? Because they wish to crush the concrete ideas of the students. If a student even clings to an idea… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
When you don't understand, you depend on reality. When you do understand, reality depends on you. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it as something mercurial that required all the right conditions, but now I know that even if I don't get any sleep, I can still work, I can power through. The stars don't have to be perfectly… — Laura Regan Copy Share
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was his Comment on Galatians . . . . I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart . . . .… — John Bunyan Copy Share
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only one way; by assuring the triumph of justice, that is, the complete liberty of everyone in the most perfect equality for all. Inequality of conditions and rights, and the resulting lack of liberty for all, is… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count the times, but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
