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buddhist mean views
From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil. E. F. Schumacher
buddhist nonsense notes
Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible. Alan Watts
buddhist fun positivity
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. Alan Watts
buddhist memories real
If my happiness at this moment consists largely in reviewing happy memories and expectations, I am but dimly aware of this present. I shall still be dimly aware of the present when the good things that I have been expecting come to pass. For I shall have formed a habit of looking behind and ahead, making it difficult for me to attend to the here and now. If, then , my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world. Alan Watts
buddhist morning reflection
Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image. Alan Watts
buddhist belief
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' Alan Ball
buddhist believe i-believe
I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist. Alan Ball
buddhist enlightenment sooner-or-later
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. Chogyam Trungpa
buddhist warrior renounce
What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others. Chogyam Trungpa
selfish party men
Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he’s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he’s a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he’s someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with. Cecelia Ahern
selfish thinking play
I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish. Art Alexakis
selfish society truth
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Phil McGraw
selfish damn-you ideas
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought! B. F. Skinner
selfish weak wish
For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance. Fred Funk
selfish men selfishness
No man will work for your interests unless they are his. David Seabury
selfish lying hot
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them. David Mitchell
selfish views missing
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view. Cesar Romero
selfish rose people
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. Alan Keyes
wants
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
wants
I'm not one of those guys who wants to die on a stage. Don Rickles
want united
We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it. C. S. Lewis
want able assuming
I can only assume that there’s only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that’s not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything. Cecelia Ahern
want looks relevant
If you always want to look relevant, just be CGI-prepared. Carrie Brownstein
want littles fit
And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating. Carrie Fisher
want victim
I don't want to be a victim. Carrie Fisher
want looking-good happy-person
Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person. Carrie Fisher
want
Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much. Bill Bryson