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Things Quotes by Ajahn Chah
- Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.…
- We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
- We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit…
- The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
- Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw…
- To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with…
- The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let…
- Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It…
- Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you…
- Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still, like a clear forest pool.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle