"Expecting to be wrong about most things most……" — John Burdett
"Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think."
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14 Quotes by John Burdett
John Burdett has 14 quotes on this site.
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I am moonlighting for the Buddha.
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The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of…
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Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.
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I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.
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Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.
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You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma…
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The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.
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I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used…
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To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
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Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves,…
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In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism…
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It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not…
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The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
— Francis Bacon
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A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of…
— Walter Bagehot
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For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and…
— Honore de Balzac
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
— Saint Basil
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself…
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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
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It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Every day brings new choices.
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The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human…
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