Prajna Quotes

#1. The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

Shunryu Suzuki

#2. And not being guided into action by foolish thought is what is known as "wisdom" (prajna).

Zen Master So Sahn

#3. There's a much deeper knowing and deeper intelligence in
this place. This is where I began the journey of listening to that inner wisdom. We've all had those aha moments. In yoga it's called prajna - a flash of illumination. I heard that voice.

Brad Willis

#4. For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

Jess Row

#5. Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.

Jess Row

#6. Suzuki also frequently quotes a sentence of Eckhart's: "The eye wherein I see God is the same eye wherein God sees me" (Suzuki, Mysticism: East and West, p. 50) as an exact expression of what Zen means by Prajna.

Thomas Merton

#7. This is the development of prajna, transcendent knowledge, the ability to see situations as they are.

Shambhala Publications

#8. I grew up in and the teachers. I think I was very lucky. I think I had a lot of social capital, and so when I found myself in this position of influence, I just - then I started to engage a bit with some of the problems in the world and realize that I could actually have an impact.

Matt Damon

#9. He was such an enigma, really - fierce and strong and weak and cruel. An incomparable friend and a son of a bitch. In the end, there wasn't one thing about him that was truer than the rest. It was all true.

Paula McLain

#10. The Universe has been wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator

Nicolaus Copernicus

#11. He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Edith Wharton

#13. God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

Therese Of Lisieux

#14. I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

Camille Paglia

#15. I'd felt like crying, but cry once and it's all over: if you cry, the reliable men will despise you, and then they will not be reliable any more.

Margaret Atwood

#16. I am still feeling my calf strain, so I have been unable to train this week. I will again have to sit out the weekend action, but the lads are climbing ever higher to safety.

David Ginola

#17. Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities - something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life.

E. M. Forster

#18. It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.

Simone Weil

#19. I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.

Kellie Pickler

#20. I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

Deb Caletti

#21. I am desperate and vulnerable ... I am always terrified ... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Faye Dunaway

#22. Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and ... it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of the Fascist ideal.

Louis De Bernieres