"The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort."

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Source : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.135

Shinjo Ito

#Teaching Quotes #Practice Quotes #Effort Quotes

“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”

Source : Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.5, Penguin
“What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”
“Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.”
“It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic.”
“Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.”

Source : Robert Hewison (1987). “The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline”, Methuen
“We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].”
“I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny”
“Can't keep up, you haters too slow.”

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