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“The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.”

Enough Practice Return Absolutes Finals Void Clinging Grasping

Author:Buddhadasa

“I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.”

Thinking Way Lost Deals Support Too Much Fashion Responsible Crisis Priorities One Time Identifying Grasping

Author:Billy Tauzin

“To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.”

“There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”

“Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness?”

May Art Self Moments Might Desire Awareness Higher Quiet Ego Connections Eternity Profound Opening Revelations Great Art You Again Grasping Clearing Contractions

Author:Ken Wilber

“One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".”

World Real States Effort Conditions Taste Experience Including Real World Avoiding Grasping

Book:A Brief History of Everything

Source: A Brief History of Everything

“I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you’re bent over about the color, don’t leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.”

Ifs Want Firsts Looks Mean Care Black Chance White Color Theory Picks Balls Math Damn Bags Bent Probability Who Cares Grasping Probability Theory

Book:Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

“I have come to see that our problem is that we don't know what happiness is. We confuse it with a life uncluttered by feelings of anxiety, rage, doubt, and sadness. But happiness is something entirely different. It's the ability to receive the pleasant without grasping and the unpleasant without condemning.”

Knows Different Feelings Problem Ability Doubt Sadness Anxiety Rage Pleasant Grasping Condemning

Author:Mark Epstein

“We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.”

Trying Remember Profit Obvious Grasping Esoteric Always Remembering

Author:Charlie Munger

“The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.”

Self Suffering Causes Grasping

Author:Garchen Rinpoche

“Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments - as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves. Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.”

Voice Dark Tree Roots Tales Forests Branches Twisted Eloquent Grasping Enchantment Dark And Twisted

Author:Brian Froud

“I’d be glad to go out on a limb with those Who want nothing beyond what the wind bestows, Were I not bound to roots, dug in deep to bear Never being done grasping for light and air”

Want Done Light Air Wind Bears Roots Bounds Glad Limbs Grasping Being Done

Author:X. J. Kennedy

“To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.”

Mean Understanding One Thing Accounts Lays Occasions Grasping

Author:Mencius

“I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.”

“Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment's suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we are not grasping for pleasure, and even our troubles are received with thanksgiving. This inner harmony, and this deliverance from fear and the tormenting desires of self, create a satisfaction in the soul which is above all the intoxicating joys of this world put together.”

World Soul Self Moments Together Joy Desire Suffering Pleasure Trouble This World Pure Harmony Simplicity Satisfaction Paradise Deliverance Grasping

Author:Francois Fenelon

“I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.”

People Mean Desire Literature Education Study Poet Pure Letters Sacred Endure Theology Fallen Grasping Mean People

Author:Martin Luther

“People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.”

People Way Feels Firsts Sometimes Moments Hands Felt Term Events Campaigns Relate Email Grasping

Author:James Spader

“I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.”

Black Practice Males Destructive Frightening Thread Psychics Glimpse Abyss Grasping Black Males

Author:Yusef Komunyakaa

“Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.”

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