Walpola Rahula Quotes

#1. The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

Jo Walton

#2. All great work - artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual - is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves altogether, and are free from self-consciousness.

Walpola Rahula

#3. As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

Walpola Rahula

#4. Action is its own kind of thinking. We had to fight now: these people were a cancer who had crept into our stomachs and infected us all. We had to be surgeons, bold and clever, not thinkers and talkers.

John Marsden

#5. It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

Walpola Rahula

#6. Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

George Henry Lewes

#7. Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

Martha Rosler

#8. If by the expression "not practical" you mean "not easy," you are right. Definitely it is not easy. Yet it should be tried. You may say it is risky trying it. Surely it cannot be more risky than trying a nuclear war.

Walpola Rahula

#9. Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.

Seamus Heaney

#10. Arise without conditions, away from cause and effect, when the whole of existence is conditioned and relative, and is within the law of cause and effect?

Walpola Rahula

#11. In Washington, I will never vote to raise taxes, I will fight to repeal healthcare reform, and I will work to balance the budget.

Andrew P. Harris

#12. The name one gives is inessential.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

Walpola Rahula

#13. Real life is the present moment - not the memories of the past which is dead and gone, nor the dreams of the future which is not yet born. One who lives in the present moment lives the real life, and he is happiest.

Walpola Rahula

#14. Love, war, life was a series of battlefields strung together with the courage to march forward.

Elise Kova

#15. Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock.

William Faulkner

#16. One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors.

Walpola Rahula

#17. I know being with me is not easy. But I want you to understand no one has me, or has ever had me, except you.

Abbi Glines

#18. Almost all religions are built on faith - rather 'blind' faith it would seem. But in Buddhism emphasis is laid on 'seeing', knowing, understanding, and not on faith, or belief.

Walpola Rahula