I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're looking into the void. We thought that we were liberating people from oppressive cultural circumstances, but we were, in fact, taking something away from ...
If we lack the proper antidotes of emptiness and bodhichitta, we will not be able to control our minds when frightening appearances manifest. It is considered a sign of progress in this practice if we go unconscious, and then, when we wake up, have f...
When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion - through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile. Love is not effortless. To the contrary, love is effortful.
When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are th...
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
My childhood was very, very, very, very traditional.
There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.
Immorality sanctified by tradition is still immorality.
I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.
It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.
There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local...
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
Tradition was safety; change was danger.
I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.
I do not come out of a literary tradition.
