Nyanaponika Thera Quotes

#1. Love is a simple practice yet it is very beneficial for the individual who practices it as well as for the community in which he lives, for the nation, and for the whole world

Dalai Lama

#2. O ye people, earth-born folk, ye who have given yourselves to drunkenness and sleep and ignorance of God, be sober now,cease from your surfeit, cease to be glamored by irrational sleep!

Hermes Trismegistus

#3. Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it ... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

Elizabeth Neel

#4. I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#5. An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Two thoughts cannot coexist at the same time: if the clear light of mindfulness is present, there is no room for mental twilight.

Nyanaponika Thera

#7. Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.

Nyanaponika Thera

#8. I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else

Melissa Marr

#9. What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.

Steven Pressfield

#10. Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind.

Nyanaponika Thera