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buddhist commitment firsts
Richard Davidson I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.
buddhist unique technology
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buddhist philosophy reading
Sara Bareilles I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.
buddhist real views
Richard Gere From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.
buddhist way serious
Richard Gere Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
buddhist men would-be
Richard Gere My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
buddhist growing-up ghetto
Richard Rohr We cannot avoid the globalization of knowledge and information. When I was a boy growing up in Kansas, I could never think about a Buddhist, or a Hindu, or Muslim, or even a Protestant - I grew up in such a Catholic ghetto. That's not possible anymore, unless you live in a cave or something. So either we have knowledge of what the other religions and other denominations are saying, and how they tie into the common thread, or we end up just being dangerously ignorant of other people and therefore prejudiced.
buddhist temples tunes
Vera Farmiga I'm someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.
reading
Harold Bloom I think that's not reading because there's nothing there to be read,
reading writing imagination
Robert Creeley Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
reading mean kids
Robert Creeley The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
reading sea library
Richard Dawkins We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.
reading dope drug
Richard Wright Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.
reading character may
Richard Whately Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.
reading ideas excellence
Richard Avedon My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. But whenever I become absorbed in the beauty of a face, in the excellence of a single feature, I feel I've lost what's really there been seduced by someone else's standard of beauty or by the sitter's own idea of the best in him. That's not usually the best. So each sitting becomes a contest.
reading men independence
Rebecca West The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.
reading boys artist
Russell Banks I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
doors house musical open time
Ken Hill Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.
doors keeps open possible shape start until
Chris Chute keeps all doors open as long as possible until the real opportunities start to shape themselves.
doors leaves math open possible
Terry Edwards Having as much math as possible leaves doors open for the future.
doors opened parents
Tim Walsh His parents always opened their doors to us.
doors entertainment knocking media rest saying whatever
John Trudell Whatever their reasons, Hollywood, or the entertainment industry, is saying something about Indians. I don't see the rest of the media knocking down any doors to do that.
doors figure minutes open students university
Jerome Meyer To get 3,000 students through two doors in 15 minutes is an impossibility, ... The University can figure out that you can open more doors. It doesn't take much to do it.
doors identify opened supposed totally western woman
Jody Conradt I think (Texas Western coach) Don Haskins probably opened a lot of doors for a lot of people. I can't identify totally with the African-American players, but I can identify as a woman doing things you're not supposed to do. That has been in my thoughts.
doors knocked
Sabeer Bhatia I was always inquisitive as a child, ... I always knocked on doors to find out what could be possible.
doors films hopefully open
Forest Whitaker Hopefully this film is going to open the doors for a lot more films like it to be made.