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Ayya Khema has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 world will…
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If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires.…
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As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size,…
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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 person with…
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Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's…
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A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.
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Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life…
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If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for…
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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 contentment
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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, or if…
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Whatever we attempt is a reflection of our inner thirst, which we hope to quench in all these external ways. What we…
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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of…
— Mortimer Adler
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
— Herb Caen
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Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that…
— Mary Lou Retton
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
— Alfred Nobel
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep…
— Al-Ghazali
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Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
— Denis Waitley
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's…
— George Eliot
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Humility was considered a great virtue in my family household. No show of complacency or self-satisfaction was ever tolerated. Patting yourself on…
— Hugh Laurie
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However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be…
— St. Vincent
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One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.
— George Eliot
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
— Henry David Thoreau
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