"We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering."

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Ajahn Chah

#Heaven Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I think most people act in their self-interest.”

Source : "Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon: 'I Think We've Won' Fracking Debate" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. April 29, 2012.
“... men and women are but children of a larger growth ...”
“Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be?”
“The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about - was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preÃ«mptive paranoia.”
“Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.”
“I was getting to perform with an actor with whom I had never interacted before”
“For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.”
“My idea of home is not necessarily a place.”

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