We’ve outgrown him. So as the wonder of the Dharma takes over our life more and more, we lose interest in other things which previously had seemed so important to us. It’s like in the spring and the summer when the trees are in full bloom, if we try to pull the leaves of a t...
because this is a Buddhist centre. Although many of you may already be aware of this, the key message of the Buddhist teachings is to try to seek a path to happiness and joy through a method that involves primarily bringing about the discipline of the mind. This discipline of ...
her parents shake it off and try their best to understand and correct her behavior somehow. As a sister, she irritated her brother, George, but later cared for and loved him just as normal siblings do.
16He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 “The Spirit of ...
"Loki, you must go to the Allfather and convince him to change his mind.""And if I do, then what? I love Thor more dearly than any of you, but you know what he is. He's arrogant, he's reckless, he's dangerous! You saw how he was today. Is that what Asgard needs from ...
Interesting Duke Nukem Quotes to Get To Know Him Better 75. “I don’t die that easy boys. Come on time for a jailbreak—by balls.”– Duke Nukem 76. “And I thought cigars tasted bad!”– Duke Nukem 77. “I like big guns, and I cannot lie.”– Duke Nukem (Baby Got Back) ...
I looked up at him in terror.” Slave Girl of Gor Was he telling her to rise as in "stand"? Was he telling her to rise as in "awaken"? It is a bit ambiguous. The more I have read this quote, the more I feel he was not telling her to stand. It is simply my opinion I ...
And this is the opposite of shallow. This is emotionally magnificent. Pam: I’m happy for him. I hope he gets the job. I really just want him to be happy. And I know that sounds cliche, and I know saying it sounds cliche sounds cliche. Maybe I’m being cliche, I don’t care....
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all th...
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ~Samuel Butler, 1895 Who learns by Finding Out has sevenfold The Skill of him who learned by Being Told. ~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Learning,"A Poet's Proverbs, 1924 ...