Top 38 Thera Quotes
#1. I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.
Murray Bartlett
#2. The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.
Julian Jaynes
#3. Thera started sputtering. "You fool. You idiot." She stopped because Blaethe's response was much pithier and far more creative. She nodded approvingly. "What he said.
Anne Bishop
#4. I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.
Jessica Ennis
#5. Certainty is absence of infinity, infinity is presence of uncertainty.
Nanamoli Thera
#6. It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.
Nanamoli Thera
#7. Interpretative thoughts settle on a bare sensory perception like a swarm of blue-bottles on an open wound.
Nanamoli Thera
#9. The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.
Nanamoli Thera
#10. I have always felt doubtful about those people who try to get one to give up one's own bunkum and accept their debunkum instead.
Nanamoli Thera
#11. Every increase in objectivity takes us further from reality.
Nanavira Thera
#12. Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can give up Beethoven.
Nanavira Thera
#13. Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?
Nanamoli Thera
#14. Civilisation is the art of living in contact with other persons with the minimum of discomfort.
Nanamoli Thera
#15. How does the body come to be apprehended as a body? Why does it not fall apart into the seen and the heard, the smelt, the tasted and the touched?
Nanamoli Thera
#16. A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it?
Nanamoli Thera
#17. Much of what is asserted as true is so asserted, not as a declaration of what the speaker knows but rather as a defence against doubt in the hope that the opposite proposition may be thereby excluded.
Nanamoli Thera
#18. How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?
Nanamoli Thera
#19. As electricity is made up of positive and negative current - so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. - Turn off the current if you want quiet. - Yes, but where is the switch?
Nanamoli Thera
#21. All the questions asked about death are wrongly put.
Nanamoli Thera
#22. Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .
Nanamoli Thera
#23. It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.
Nanamoli Thera
#24. When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.
Nanamoli Thera
#25. What the scientists are apt to forget: the difference between quantity and quality is one of quality, not of -quantity.
Nanamoli Thera
#26. Authoritative people bore me: but what bores me even more are those swarms of little people who love authority and in virtue of whom the authority of the authoritative can be exercised.
Nanamoli Thera
#27. It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.
It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.
Nanamoli Thera
#28. The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?
Nanamoli Thera
#29. I was the future and shall be the past - I am a timeless, everlasting Now, so short I have no end, so long I have no duration.
Nanamoli Thera
#30. Forgetting is a very useful kind of ignorance: it wipes the bad sums off our slates.
Nanamoli Thera
#31. 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
#32. Just as one can arrange bits of iron, etc, into a hermetically sealed box which imprison other pieces of matter, so one can arrange thoughts into a box too, which effectively imprisons other thoughts.
Nanamoli Thera
#33. What we are not at all interested in may be what we are.
Nanamoli Thera
#34. Odd how people interested in religion spend so much time trying to convert the obvious meaning of their texts that are their authority.
Nanamoli Thera
#35. If you are not master of the facts they will beat you down with opinions. If you are not master of the void they will beat you down with facts.
Nanamoli Thera
#36. Absolute Truth would be incompatible with life as absolute light would be with vision
Nanamoli Thera
#37. Two demons: one who insists that what is to be inferred by verbal processes must correspond to experience; and one who 'insists that what cannot be arrived at by verbal processes cannot correspond to experience.
Nanamoli Thera
#38. 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
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