Grasping Quotes - Page 7

• Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.

  Gladys Taber

  Hermoso, Correr, Corazón

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• Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

  Ellen Hopkins

  Octopus, Trying, Monsters

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.

  Jack Kornfield

  Serenity, World, Unfolding

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• We Are All the Same
  Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
  Hear them speak of lost friends.
  At birth, you were cut from your bed,
  Crying and grasping in separation.
  Everyone listens, knowing your song.
  You yearn for others who know your name,
  And the words to your lament.
  We are all the same, all the same,
  Longing to find our way back;
  Back to the one, back to the only one.

  Rumi

  Love, Song, Cutting

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• Sentarse apaciblemente en un cojín día y noche buscando alcanzar la Budeidad, rechazando la vida y la muerte con la esperanza de realizar la iluminación, es todo como un mono aferrándose a la luna reflejada en el agua.

  Shoitsu Omatsu

  Vida, Luna, Noche

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• The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

  Murray Rothbard

  Thieves, Gang, Individual

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• Nuestras ilusiones -las creencias a las que nos aferramos- son las puertas de nuestra libertad. Simplemente tenemos que entrar por ellas sin aferrarnos ni alejarnos. No debemos creerlas, pero tampoco debemos huir de ellas. Tenemos que ver cada momento de aparente esclavitud como una invitación a la libertad. Entonces, dejar de huir se convierte en un acto de amor, en un acto de compasión.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Believe, Compassion

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• Padre, permíteme ser débil para que pueda soltar mi aferramiento a todo lo temporal. Mi vida, mi reputación, mis posesiones, Señor, déjame perder la tensión de la mano que me agarra. Incluso, Padre, que pierda el amor a las caricias. Cuántas veces he soltado un apretón sólo para retener lo que apreciaba por anhelo "inofensivo", el toque acariciador. Más bien, abre mi mano para recibir el clavo del Calvario, como fue abierta la de Cristo, para que yo, soltándolo todo, pueda ser liberado, desatado de todo lo que ahora me ata. Él pensó que el Cielo, sí, la igualdad con Dios, no era algo a lo que aferrarse. Así que permíteme soltar mi agarre.

  Jim Elliot

  Padre, Manos, Cielo

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• Most people never realize that 80% of the work is done before you step in a room. That's why they spend their entire lives grasping for magical tactics instead of changing their entire mindset.

  Ramit Sethi

  Business, People, Done

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• The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Life, Fall, Night

  Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). "El genio del haiku: lecturas de R.H. Blyth sobre poesía, vida y Zen".

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• Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

  John Ruskin

  Queens, Husband, Son

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• Sólo cuando la mente está quieta, tranquila, sin esperar ni aferrarse ni resistirse a nada, es posible ver lo que es verdad. Es la verdad la que libera, no tu esfuerzo por ser libre.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Effort, Mind, Expecting

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• We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

  Sala As Antonio

  Air, Trying, Sun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Order, Practice

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• Toda experiencia y fenómeno se entiende como un sueño, esto no debe ser sólo una comprensión intelectual, sino una experiencia vívida y lúcida... La integración genuina de este punto produce un cambio profundo en la respuesta del individuo al mundo. El aferramiento y la aversión disminuyen enormemente, y los enredos emocionales que antes parecían tan apremiantes se experimentan como el tirón de las historias oníricas, y nada más.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rimpoché

  Dream, Emotional, Profound

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• Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

  Pema Chodron

  Meditation, Everyday, Mindfulness

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• La verdadera magia es, pues, el elevado conocimiento de los poderes más sutiles que hasta ahora no han sido reconocidos por la ciencia, porque los métodos de escrutinio que se han aplicado hasta ahora no bastan para su captación, comprensión y utilización, aunque las leyes de la magia sean análogas a todas las ciencias oficiales del mundo.

  Franz Bardon

  Conocimiento, Derecho, Comprensión

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• Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Mean, Perception

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• Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, War, Simple

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• I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you’re bent over about the color, don’t leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mean, Math, Probability Theory

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.113, Macmillan

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• One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Effort, Experience

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.347, Shambhala Publications

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• Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping, free of ego, free of the self-contraction. And through that opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity; who can say otherwise, when time itself is supendend in the clearing that great art creates in your awareness?

  Ken Wilber

  Art, Self, Profound

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• En un grado u otro, todo el mundo está conectado al Misterio, y todo el mundo anhela en secreto ampliar la conexión. Para ello es necesario ampliar el alma. Estas cosas pueden ampliar el alma: la risa, el peligro, la imaginación, la meditación, la naturaleza salvaje, la pasión, la compasión, los psicodélicos, la belleza, la iconoclasia y conducir bajo la lluvia con la capota bajada. Estas cosas pueden disminuirla: el miedo, la amargura, la insipidez, las modas, el egoísmo, la violencia, la corrupción, la ignorancia, el aferramiento, el brillo y comer ketchup con requesón.

  Tom Robbins

  Risa, lluvia, ignorancia

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• Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Somewhere Else, Understanding

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• People are still grasping for the miracle, and unfortunately, there are no miracles, if you do not exercise for a year, and let your body remain dormant, then you will gain weight.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Years, People

  "Richard Simmons...court jester & motivator". Interview: Richard Simmons diet, www.askmen.com.

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