Come Quote by TSgt Harley Baker

“From defilement can come much wisdom”

— Ajahn Po

The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance…

— Henepola Gunaratana

“Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration…

— Adolf Hitler

“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be defiled over…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small…

— Mahasi Sayadaw

What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood…

— Saint Basil

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

— Gautama Buddha

“The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.”

— Émile Zola

Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw…

— Ajahn Chah

Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

— Simone Weil

A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with…

— Saint Augustine

In short: if one has nothing of value to say, only that which is impure defilement, avoid them. They are masters of the dark.…

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation…

— Ajahn Chah

Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely…

— Tenzin Palmo