Amida's Quotes

#1. Amida's unimpeded light is the sun of wisdom that destroys the mind of darkness.
(Preface in Teaching, Practice, Faith, Enlightenment)

Kentetsu Takamori

#2. Although I too am within Amida's grasp,
Passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him;
Nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always.

Shinran Shonin

#3. There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#4. I did the one concert, and I was not bitten by the conducting bug, and I thought I was done, but then the phone started to ring, and gradually, over time, I started conducting more and more. Now a third of my performances are with orchestras.

Bobby McFerrin

#5. Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!

Deyth Banger

#6. I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don't want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.

Tori Amos

#7. I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

Lesley Gore

#8. Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing.

Eric Hoffer

#9. How do I define God? I don't ... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

Noam Chomsky

#10. If you are positive about your calling, then it does not matter how hard or complicated it is

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

Tom Lehrer

#12. Do right and you will be conspicuous.

Mark Twain

#13. Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.

Edward Gibbon

#14. I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.

Arthur Golden

#15. I roamed alone;
O, barren dreams.
My echoed voice,
what lonely comfort.
Here is my salvation:
I hear the triumph drum;
the rhythm of the rising,
the long-awaited sun.

Craig Froman

#16. It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

Ann Trason