Hsing Quotes

#1. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

Hsing Yun

#2. Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.

Hsing Yun

#3. When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.

Hsing Yun

#4. In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

Pierre Bayle

#5. [The Bible] warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins
can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.

Billy Graham

#6. Bad vibes, an underlying sickness or misery that oozed out around the edges of conversations and interactions.

Nevada Barr

#7. I went to visit my grandma. I meant to stay for two days, but ended up staying two months. (So I overslept a little).

Jarod Kintz

#8. You are the universe, so see the beauty of nature and feel the joy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#9. Aware of how tenuous life can be. How too many things go unsaid or undone. How we wait too long and miss the chance." "Miss

Suanne Laqueur

#10. Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

Hsing Yun

#11. What was she to say? The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?

Robin McKinley

#12. We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie.

Carl Jung

#13. There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

W. Averell Harriman

#14. No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever will. It is a secret that has endured from the very beginning of the time of cats and will never be revealed.

Paul Gallico

#15. Compassion is truth in its purest form.

Master Hsing Yun

#16. As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

Clare Bowen

#17. Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.

Hsing Yun