Kim Hee-jin famous quotes

Enlightenment is construed as seeing things as they really are rather than as they appear; it is a direct insight into, and discernment of, the nature of reality that is apprehended only by wisdom, which transcends and is prior to the activity of discriminative thought. In this view, delusion is defined as all that is opposed to enlightenment.
-- Kim Hee-jin

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Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.
-- Kim Hee-jin

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Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.
-- Kim Hee-jin

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Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.
-- Kim Hee-jin

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Beauty and inspiration can be found in any natural place of the earth.

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.