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“It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.”

Humans Important Hands Pain Desire Suffering Pleasure Human Experience Avoidance Grasping Pain And Pleasure

Author:Dipa Ma

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.”

Persons Use Beautiful Poetry Choices Interesting Notes Devices Constructs Grasping Ineffable Literary Devices

Author:Vanna Bonta

“The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.”

Mind Made Two Facts Choices Process Accepting Four Highest Dedication Grasping

Author:John Galt

“The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."”

Important Real Lying Peace Meditation Alive Becoming Ego Glory Method Absence Clarity Bliss Generous Grasping Hopes And Fears Dissolving

Author:Sogyal Rinpoche

“'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.”

Trying Hands Strong Sadness Feet Sad Stones Weight Rose Dust Hills Sweat Torment Limbs Monstrous Brows Pouring Grasping Over The Top Shameless Sisyphus Hands And Feet

Book:The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

Source: The Odyssey of Homer: Several Versions

“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”

Honesty Deception Deceiving Dishonesty Hype Grasping Dishonesty And Lying

Author:George Bancroft

“I've never heard anyone say the really deep lessons of life have come in times of ease and comfort. But, I have heard many saints say every significant advance I've ever made in grasping in the depth of God's love and growing deep with Him, have come through suffering.”

Made Suffering Growing Heard Comfort Lessons Depth Saint Significant Inevitable Ease Life Lesson God's Love Grasping Really Deep

Author:John Piper

“Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.”

Men Giving Loses Grasping Reservations

Author:James Allen

“Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?”

Thinking Men Today Weak Silly Liars Bloody Cheat Vicious Traitor Cowardly Envious Grasping Hypocritical Backbiting

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.”

Men Dangerous Creatures Convinced Grasping

Book:Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.”

People Feels Facts Government Passion Evil Names Results Common Subjects Willing Demand Authority Assuming Noble Vanity Submit Oppressed Grasping Flattered Mob Rule

Author:Polybius

“With those organizations, it's like time travel. I just reach back and find little kids who were like me. Maybe the circumstances vary, but the formula is the same. They're having problems reading, having problems grasping some of the things that are being taught to them.”

Littles Problem Kids Reading Taught Circumstances Organization Like Me Formulas Time Travel Little Kid Vary Grasping

Author:Malik Yusef

“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.”

Men Government Liberty Worst Libertarian Civilized Arbitrary Grasping

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”

Heart Said Night Black Sin Tree Strange Huge Grasping

Author:Neil Gaiman

“As human beings we have the capacity to enjoy limitless, blissful happiness...there is nothing wrong with having pleasures and enjoyments. What is wrong is the confused way we grasp onto these pleasures, turning them from a source of happiness into a source of pain and dissatisfaction. It is grasping and attachment that is the problem, not the pleasure themselves.”

Way Humans Problem Pain Enjoy Human Beings Pleasure Source Capacity Enjoyment Confused Attachment Limitless Dissatisfaction Grasping Source Of Happiness

Author:Thubten Yeshe

“[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.”

Pride Logical Intuitive Grasping

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!”

Thinking Mind Said Life Is Certain Easy Difficult Practice Cases Difficulty Careful Certainty Uncertainty Bites Be Careful Grasping Lurking

Book:Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings

Source: Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings

“If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.”

Ifs Accomplished Dependent Grasping

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“It was in grasping the reality of his divine parentage as a son of God, as well as his relationship with Christ and the promise of eternal life, that Moses was able to resist the challenge presented by Satan.”

Wells Reality Able Christ Challenges Divine Son Promise Eternal Satan Eternal Life Moses Grasping

Author:David S. Baxter

“The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.”

Made Disease Neighbor Usual Suspicious Grasping Covetousness

Book:Plutarch's Lives

Source: Plutarch's Lives

“The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.”

“Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all.”

People Want Doe I Can Play Europe Lust Incapable Keyboards Grasping Forfeit

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.”

Four Influence Ignorance Authority Prejudice Obstacles Chiefs Customs Display Submission Unworthy Grasping Concealment Ostentatious

Book:Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2

Source: Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2

“Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.”

Art Modern Members Consuming Grasping Modern Art

Book:Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

Source: Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down

“We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.”

World Reality Our Lives Fine Photograph Proof Permanent Perceive Internals Concrete Incapable Grasping Outer Worlds Verify Figments

Book:Photography & Fascination: Essays

Source: Photography & Fascination: Essays

“Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.”

Way Understanding Subjects Structure Related Permit Grasping

Book:The Process of Education, Revised Edition

Source: The Process of Education, Revised Edition

“To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.”

Process Vote Pursue Agendas Fraud Conspiracy Partisans Straws Grasping Theorists Understatement Windmills

Author:George Voinovich

“The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.”

Kind I Can Problem Picks Lays Clock Let It Go Grasping Aversion

Author:Ajahn Sumedho

“If worldviews or metanarratives can be compared to lenses, which of them brings things into the sharpest focus? This is not an irrational retreat from reason. Rather, it is about grasping a deeper order of things which is more easily accessed by the imagination than by reason.”

Ifs Reason Order Imagination Focus Deeper Irrational Retreat Lenses Worldview Grasping

Author:Alister E. McGrath

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.”

Ideas Accepting Theory Rhetoric Grasping Insisting

Author:Paul Fry

“Our problem is not that we're fallen; our problem is we haven't become human yet. The question is, what can make us human, so that we can give life away and give love away and not be grasping after trying to protect our own lives all the time? That's the way I see the Jesus story, and I think it's a powerful and profound story.”

Thinking Way Giving Trying Humans Stories Problem Jesus Powerful Havens Protect Profound Fallen Grasping

Author:John Shelby Spong

“Most pastors have a hard time grasping a vision. But vision is the indispensable quality of a leader.”

Hard Quality Leader Vision Hard Times Pastor Indispensable Grasping Qualities Of A Leader

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.”

Mind Helping Buddhism Ego Overcoming Meaningful Endless Grasping

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.”

Way Kind Persons Desire Certain Suffering Causes Attention Identity Organized Who We Are Fullness Grasping Sticky

Author:Tara Brach

“We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.”

Form Universal Intellect Grasping Platonic

Author:Peter Adamson

“I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'”

Men Giving Wisdom Politics Power Economy Dangerous Cry Creatures Convinced Graves Liberalism Grasping

Book:The Quotable Abigail Adams

Source: The Quotable Abigail Adams

“A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.”

Writing Trying Limits Boundaries Grasping

Author:Melissa Febos

“If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.”

Ifs Believe God Capable Grasping Spiritual Transformation Thank You God

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.”

Facts Chance Existence Struggle Greater Survival Capable Species Manage Rely Lions Packs Hunts Grasping Rely Upon Lone Wolf Struggle For Existence

Author:Christian Lous Lange

“I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.”

People Way Tvs Grasping Watching Tv

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.”

Has Beens War Ends America Left Identity Cold Cold War Grasping Left And Right

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

Reality Literature Loses Danger Shadow Substance Fables Grasping Focus And Concentration Focused Attention

Author:Aesop

“Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.”

Knows Use Hands Animal Vision Smell Noses Organs Elephants Grasping Trunks Primates

Author:Frans de Waal

“I am alone, I am all alone, I am completely alone. Grasping this reality, I let go of my bag, drop to my knees and press my forehead against the floor. There, I offer up to the universe a fervent prayer of thanks. First in English. Then in Italian. And then - just to get the point across - in Sanskrit.”

Firsts Reality Universe Prayer Offers Letting Go Presses Thanks Knees Bags Italian Foreheads All Alone Grasping Fervent Sanskrit Fervent Prayer

Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.”

Knows Way Sometimes Feelings Together Difficult Mountain Highest Resources Weight Longing Heavy Limitation Reaching Yearning Let It Go Personal Experiences Grasping Factual Mountain Top

Author:Bell Hooks

“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.”

Source: A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story

“Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.”

Opportunity Disappointment Occasions Grasping Disappointment In Friends

Book:The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary

“I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can remember without the pain killing me" And the days were stacking up. And weeks. And months. It was now almost the middle of June and he'd died in February, but I still felt like I'd just woken from a horrible dream, that I was suspended in that stunned, paralyzed state between sleep and reality where I was grasping for, but couldn't get a handle on normality.”

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