Sumedho Ajahn Quotes

#1. In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

Joseph Goebbels

#2. Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know where he was when he got there. He lost two-thirds of his ships along the way. And he did it with someone else's money.

Matt Bahr

#3. Instead of becoming the world's expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

Ajahn Sumedho

#4. We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

Ajahn Sumedho

#5. I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life.

Philip Johnson

#6. The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

Ajahn Sumedho

#7. They were on their way to Canaan; we are on our way to heaven!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined.

Maria Edgeworth

#9. Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn't be true!

Margaret Mitchell

#10. The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.

Ajahn Sumedho

#11. Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.

Ajahn Sumedho

#12. They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory in the great eyes of Odysseus

Franz Kafka

#13. Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It's our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.

Ajahn Sumedho

#14. I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

Kool Keith

#15. Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

Ajahn Sumedho

#16. I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

Ajahn Sumedho

#17. A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Ajahn Sumedho

#18. We cannot be judge and jury, the hardest thing is to understand the unknown and in knowing the hidden all things are revealed giving truth.
God is watcher during all moments and at the end the real Judge.

Zarina Bibi