Grasping Quotes - Page 8

• There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.

  Roger Bacon

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Men

  "Teaching the pursuit of science". Book by John H. Woodburn and Ellsworth Scott Obourn, p. 70, 1965.

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• Que la nueva India surja de la cabaña de los campesinos, empuñando el arado, de las chozas, del zapatero y del barrendero.

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Cobblers, Cottages

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• The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.

  Buddhadasa

  Practice, Finals, Void

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• Simply allow your thoughts and experiences to come and go, without ever grasping at them.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoché

  Viene y va

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• The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rimpoché

  People, Mind, Ordinary

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• Las cosas del espíritu son las que cuentan: la fraternidad - en un día en el que hay demasiado odio en casa y en el extranjero; la alegría - en un día en el que los pesimistas tienen la palabra y los cínicos son populares; el servicio - en un día en el que millones de personas están interesadas en conseguir o captar, en lugar de dar...

  E. Urner Goodman

  Odio, Hogar, Dar

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• Tal es la tendencia a aferrarse del corazón humano, que debe tener algo a lo que aferrarse - y que, si se le arrebata sin la sustitución de otro algo en su lugar, dejaría un vacío y una vacante tan dolorosa para la mente, como el hambre es para el sistema natural.... El corazón debe tener algo a lo que aferrarse.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Heart, Mind, Vacancy

  Thomas Chalmers (1855). "Sermones: Select Works", p.250

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• La ambición es con frecuencia el único refugio que la vida ha dejado a los afectos negados o mortificados. Nos burlamos del ojo avaro, del ala atrevida, del alma que parece tener sed sólo de soberanía, y no sabemos que el vuelo de esta ave ambiciosa ha sido de un seno o de un hogar lleno de cenizas.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Ojo, Hogar, Ambición

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). "Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside", p.74

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• There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a violent crime with lethal force. This is not a sense of power, it is now the experience of escaping from a sense of powerlessness.

  John Longenecker

  Gun, Escaping, Feelings

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• It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.

  Dipa Ma

  Pain, Hands, Suffering

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• Este poder se vuelve particularmente irresistible cuando es ejercido por aquellos que, porque poseen y controlan el dinero, son capaces también de gobernar el crédito y determinar su asignación, por esa razón suministran, por así decirlo, la sangre vital a todo el cuerpo económico, y agarran, por así decirlo, en sus manos el alma misma de la producción, de modo que nadie se atreve a respirar en contra de su voluntad.

  Papa Pío XI

  Hands, Soul, Credit

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI. (1931). “On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter”

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• Temer el examen de cualquier proposición me parece una parálisis intelectual y moral que siempre impedirá asir con firmeza cualquier sustancia.

  George Eliot

  Fear, Intellectual, Examination

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6448, Delphi Classics

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• Las amplias y ricas hectáreas de nuestras llanuras agrícolas han sido preservadas por la naturaleza durante mucho tiempo para convertirse en su regalo sin trabas a un pueblo civilizado y libre, sobre el cual deberían descansar, en propiedad bien distribuida, los numerosos hogares de ciudadanos ilustrados, iguales y fraternales... Ni nuestras vastas extensiones de las llamadas tierras desiertas deben ser entregadas al monopolio de corporaciones o individuos codiciosos, como parece ser la tendencia bajo el estatuto existente.

  Grover Cleveland

  Hogar, Tierra, Gente

  Cuarto mensaje anual de Grover Cleveland (diciembre de 1888), publicado en "The writings and speeches of Grover Cleveland" editado por George Frederick Parker, hacia 1892.

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• Imagine a pantomime directed by Quentin Tarantino, where villains are booed, heroes are blood-stained, the body-count is high, the entertainment pulsating, the language filthy and the audience screamed behind you'' as tackles hurtled in like boulders crashing down a mountain-side. Such was the epic drama that gripped the Emirates yesterday. A derby crammed with sound, fury and significance ended with everyone grasping for breath, with Arsenal regaining the high ground of the Premier League... This was the Premier League at its raw, mistake-filled, mesmerising best. Utterly compelling.

  Henry Winter

  Soccer, Football, Mistake

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

  Bill Crawford

  Fire, Hot, Coal

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• El éxito de todo depende de la intuición, la capacidad de ver las cosas de una manera que después se demuestra que es cierta, aunque no se pueda establecer en el momento, y de captar el hecho esencial, descartando lo no esencial, aunque no se pueda dar cuenta de los principios por los que se hace.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Giving, Intuition, Principles

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2011). “The Theory of Economic Development: An Inquiry into Profits, Capital, Credit, Interest, and the Business Cycle”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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• Nowadays, hoy en día, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination, grasping power, venal stupidity, real evil, don’t get me started, it’s good to know that a conversation about tacos will always engender a sense of comfort and happiness. If only we could sit down at a big round world table and eat tacos in a spirit of love we might begin to work on world peace!

  Denise Chávez

  Real, War, Our World

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• You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

  John Ruskin

  Fun, World, Care

  John Ruskin (1858). “The Stones of Venice”, p.44

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• Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Self, Relax, Ease

  "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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• The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.

  Charles Eliot Norton

  Selfish, Taken, Unique

  Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”

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• Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God today, perfect in our manner and mode, open to the riches and the glories of a realm that time forgot, but that great art reminds us of: not by its content, but by what it does in us: suspends the desire to be elsewhere. And thus it undoes the agitated grasping in the heart of the suffering self, and releases us - maybe for a second, maybe for a minute, maybe for all eternity - releases us from the coil of ourselves.

  Ken Wilber

  Art, Eye, Past

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• In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
  In Illumination, all things appear as is.
  Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
  The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

  Sheng-yen

  Illumination, Two, Silence

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• Si un niño tiene tendencia a ser avaro o a aferrarse a alguna de sus pequeñas posesiones, se cuentan leyendas sobre el desprecio y la desgracia que caen sobre la persona poco generosa y mezquina.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Fall, Mean

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• Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Letting Go, Meditation, Mind

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Truth Is, Theory

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.29, Princeton University Press

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