Grasping Quotes

161 quotes by 143 authors

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a… — Shoitsu Omatsu
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend… — Reginald Horace Blyth
Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting… — John Ruskin
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for… — Ken Wilber
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and lucid experience...Genuine integration… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our… — Pema Chodron
True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because… — Franz Bardon
People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body… — Richard Simmons
We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep… — Ace Antonio Hall
Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda
Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping… — Ramit Sethi
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans… — Paul Ryan
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away.… — Adyashanti
The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society. — Murray Rothbard
Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections. — Jaggi Vasudev
Capitalismâ€™s real â€œgrave-diggersâ€ may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have… — Arundhati Roy
Things of the spirit are what count: brotherhood â€“ in a day when there is too much hatred at home and abroad; cheerfulness â€“ in… — E. Urner Goodman
The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

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