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Henepola Gunaratana

"They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it."

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

Henepola Gunaratana

#Discipline Quotes #Giving Quotes #Over You Quotes

“On the square...I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith, Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.”

Source : Song: Step Up Front
“Itâ€™s walking the razorâ€™s edge of the sacred moment where you donâ€™t know, you canâ€™t count on, and comfort yourself with any sure hope. All you can know is your allegiance to life and your intention to serve it in this moment that we are given. In that sense, this radical uncertainty liberates your creativity and courage.”
“Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.”
“I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.”

Source : Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.”
“I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood.”
“All transformation begins with an intense, burning desire to be transformed. The first step in the 'renewing of the mind' is desire. You must want to be different [and intend to be] before you can begin to change yourself. Then you must make your future dream a present fact. You do this by assuming the feeling of your wish fulfilled. By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person. If this assumption is persisted in until it becomes your dominant feeling, the attainment of your ideal is inevitable.”
“Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.”

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