Vinessa Shaw famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Loneliness #Believe #Buddhism
How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Buddhist #Mind #Doe
I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Fun #Children #Acting
In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Party #Character #Night
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Wall #Keys #Humanity
The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Essentials #Action #Compassionate
I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Quality #Actors #Television
With sex scenes and intense scenes, in general, a lot of it is preparation before the scenes happen, so that you don't have to worry about it on set.
-- Vinessa Shaw

#Sex #Worry #Preparation

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people.
Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.
Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.
Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.

Vinessa Shaw famous quotes

You may also like: