Grasping Quotes

161 quotes by 141 authors

Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return.… — Buddhadasa
I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when… — Billy Tauzin
To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These… — Tom Robbins
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone… — Roger Bacon
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping,… — Ken Wilber
One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to… — Ken Wilber
I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball… — Janet Evanovich
I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings… — Mark Epstein
We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric. — Charlie Munger
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping. — Garchen Rinpoche
Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves.… — Brian Froud
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only. — Mencius
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality. — Harvey Cox
I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affections, feel His invisible hand, drawing me, leading… — Miguel de Unamuno
Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we… — Francois Fenelon
I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology,… — Martin Luther
People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's… — James Spader
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be… — Yusef Komunyakaa
Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives.… — Daniel J. Siegel

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