Top 34 Quotes About Fronsdal
#1. I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live.
Mavis Gallant
#3. Better than a thousand meaningless statements Is one meaningful word, Which, having been heard, Brings peace.
Gil Fronsdal
#4. When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.
Mason Cooley
#5. If you want to attain peace, live peacefully
Gil Fronsdal
#6. You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.
Gil Fronsdal
#8. Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is the person who conquers herself.
Gil Fronsdal
#9. It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#10. Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.
Gil Fronsdal
#11. Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.
Marissa Mayer
#13. The gift of Dharma surpasses all gifts. The taste of Dharma surpasses all tastes. The delight in Dharma surpasses all delights. The destruction of craving conquers all suffering.
Gil Fronsdal
#14. Hatred never ends through hatred. By non-hate alone does it end. This is an ancient truth.
Gil Fronsdal
#15. Buddhism's cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.
Gil Fronsdal
#17. One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.
Gil Fronsdal
#18. Those who consider the inessential to be essential
And see the essential as inessential Don't reach the essential,
Living in the field of wrong intention
Gautama Buddha
#19. It's easy to do what is not good And things that harm oneself. It's very difficult to do Things beneficial and good.
Gil Fronsdal
#20. People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.
Gil Fronsdal
#21. Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.
Gil Fronsdal
#22. Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.
Gil Fronsdal
#23. Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act
Gil Fronsdal
#24. I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
Gale Sayers
#25. It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.
Gil Fronsdal
#26. Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?
Gil Fronsdal
#27. When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful.
Gil Fronsdal
#28. Giving a brief sermon, the Abbess once said, 'A hot furnace does not need to be heated. A loving heart does not need to be loved. Being loving is more important than being loved.
Gil Fronsdal
#29. I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
Barry White
#30. Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving
Gil Fronsdal
#31. Puck said the shittier the hotel, the less likely it was anyone would remember us. By that logic, we were now perfectly safe.
Joanna Wylde
#32. There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
Vance Havner
#33. To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.
Gil Fronsdal
#34. Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.
Daisaku Ikeda
