Defilement Quotes

• A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Race

  Adolf Hitler (1971). "Mein Kampf", Mariner Books

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• Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

  Simone Weil

  Power, Purity, Contemplating

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.122, Psychology Press

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• La bebida ha derramado más sangre, colgado más crespones, vendido más casas, hundido a más gente en la bancarrota, armado a más villanos, matado a más niños, roto más alianzas, profanado más inocencia, cegado más ojos, destronado más razón, destrozado más hombría, deshonrado más feminidad, roto más corazones, destrozado más vidas, empujado más al suicidio y cavado más tumbas que cualquier otro mal que haya maldecido el mundo.

  Evangeline Booth

  Suicidio, Niños, Hogar

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• Pero cuando la lujuria, con miradas impúdicas, gestos sueltos y palabras soeces, pero sobre todo con lascivas y pródigas artes del pecado, deja que las partes interiores se contaminen, el alma se coagula por contagio, se incrusta e imbuye, hasta que pierde por completo la propiedad divina de su primer ser.

  John Milton

  Art, Soul, Lust

  John Milton, “Comus”

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• By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

  Buda Gautama

  Buddhist, Mind, Purification

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• The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance is eliminated. Both craving and ignorance are equally powerful defilements that cause suffering.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Powerful, Ignorance, Suffering

  Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (2010). “Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory Guide to Deeper States of Meditation”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.

  Simone Weil

  Purity, Ability, Contemplating

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.290, Routledge

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• What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of Christ, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God and the love of Christ, and that he have no blemish nor spot nor any such thing; that he be holy and blameless and so eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood; for 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself.' What is the mark of those who eat the Bread and drink the Cup of Christ? That they keep in perpetual remembrance Him who died for us and rose again.

  San Basilio

  Christian, Blood, Rose

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• You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

  Buda Gautama

  Buddhist, Thoughtful, Effort

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• Si eres zarandeado por las dudas, lleno de fuertes pasiones irreflexivas, y anhelando sólo lo que es perjudicial, tu sed crecerá más y más, sin saciarse, y tu dolor crecerá con tus contaminaciones.

  Buda Gautama

  Strong, Buddhist, Pain

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregorio Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• En resumen: si uno no tiene nada de valor que decir, sólo lo que es impuro mancillamiento, evítalos. Son maestros de la oscuridad. No sirven para nada.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Buddhism, Dark

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• Gluttony and satiety in food produce defiled lust, while free association with women enflames the fire of lusts ... At the time of struggle with defilement, punish your thoughts with lack of nourishment, so that you will think not of defilements, but of hunger, and reject the invitation to go visiting.

  Nilus of Sinai

  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

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• ¿De dónde viene la lluvia? Viene de toda el agua sucia que se evapora de la tierra, como la orina y el agua que tiras después de lavarte los pies. ¿No es maravilloso cómo el cielo puede tomar esa agua sucia y convertirla en agua pura y limpia? Tu mente puede hacer lo mismo con tus impurezas si se lo permites.

  Ajahn Chah

  Lluvia, Sucio, Cielo

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• For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Soul, Doubt, Flesh

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1916). “Vain Oblations”

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• It is harmful to remember previous sins in detail. For if they bring you sorrow, they will estrange you from hope, but if they are remembered without sorrow, they will introduce the previous defilement. If you want to bring to God an uncondemned confession, then don't remember your sins in detail, but manfully endure the suffering that is coming because of them.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirador, Cristiano, Religioso

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• Realization is wonderful, but you have to expand it until there's not a single defilement left in the mind and the mind is completely open and spacious. Even in that condition, you still use the relative mind. You use them both.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Mind, Use, Realization

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• A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

  Saint Augustine

  Light, Suffering, World

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• Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

  Buda Gautama

  Sorrow, Age, Disease

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• Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

  Ajahn Chah

  Meditation, Understanding, Listening

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• Una mente imperturbable por los caprichos de la fortuna, liberada de la tristeza, limpia de las impurezas, liberada del miedo, ésta es la mayor bendición.

  Buda Gautama

  Buddhist, Blessing, Mind

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• Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.

  Mahasi Sayadaw

  Mean, Cutting, Mindfulness

  Vidagama Maitreya, Mahasi Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla, Nyanaponika Thera, Ria Kloppenborg (2013). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311”, p.76, Buddhist Publication Society

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• Este lugar me huele a podredumbre, el olor a podredumbre que desprende la fruta madura. En ninguna parte, jamás, la horrible mecánica del nacimiento, la cópula y la muerte -esos monstruosos trastornos de la vida que los griegos llaman miasma, contaminación- ha sido tan brutal o se ha pintado para que parezca tan bonita; tanta gente ha puesto tanta fe en las mentiras, la mutabilidad y la muerte, muerte, muerte.

  Donna Tartt

  Mentira, Olor, Gente

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