Quotes of: Martial-arts Keyword

In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens: From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur

I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.

My Life in Japanese Art and Gardens: From Entrepreneur to Connoisseur

Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

We need to get to the heart of each heart issue—and we can’t do it. Only the Maker can. The world needs #Jesus.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

Owen remarked "The basis of science and art is magical - vice versa, magic is art and science. It goes both ways. There's not ever black and white...in magic or in anything to my way of thinking.

Sweet Sorcerer

Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!" (p. 127)

Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

The Pleasures of Life

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

He turned the presidency – and the President's House – into something it had not been before: a center of curiosity and inquiry, of vibrant institution that played informal but important roles in the broader life of the nation, from science to li...

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

The political nature of man made it highly unlikely that a society designed to meet regularly would remain peaceable. "The way to make friends quarrel is to pit them in disputation under the public eye," Jefferson said.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Nothing is as empowering as real-world validation, even if it's for failure.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles