"Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world."

-- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold

#Suffering Quotes #World Quotes #Awakening Quotes

“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”
“I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.”
“The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.”

Source : "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 436, 1950.
“You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”
“I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.”
“Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something”
“A slow band can be great. A slow 100-metres runner is just obsolete.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“A child's a plaything for an hour.”

Source : Charles Lamb, Alfred Ainger, Mary Lamb “Works: The essays of Elia”

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