Grasping Quotes - Page 9

• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mistake, Good Friend

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• The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.

  Hosokawa Tadaoki

  Lying, Reality, Understanding

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• Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Details, Statistics, Features

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement.

  Henry Giroux

  Generations, Way, Youth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

  Peter Adamson

  Form, Intellect, Platonic

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When desire for a certain person's attention becomes an "I have to have" kind of grasping, then identity gets organized around needing that and it becomes very solid and sticky. That causes suffering because we're not inhabiting the fullness of who we are, we're fixated and contracted on life being a certain way.

  Tara Brach

  Suffering, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.

  Ajahn Sumedho

  Let It Go, Aversion, Kind

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• Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Meaningful, Buddhism, Ego

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• To say that the vote fraud conspiracy theorists are tilting at windmills is an understatement. They're using a legitimate public process to pursue an agenda that is, at best, grasping at straws and, at worse, partisan.

  George Voinovich

  Agendas, Vote, Conspiracy

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• Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.

  Dave Barry

  Art, Modern, Members

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• When you're comfortable and secure, it's not enough. The mind doesn't stop there because it has to continue to focus itself as this body, so it moves to pleasure. And pleasure really is a non-existent thing. When we're experiencing pleasure, we're trying to hold onto it as it leaves, so it really isn't pleasure. Pleasure is pain because we're grasping.

  Byron Katie

  Pain, Moving, Focus

  "Doing the Work". Interview with Melissa Bond, www.catalystmagazine.net. April 30, 2007.

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• Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

  James Allen

  Men, Giving, Reservations

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• A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

  Doris Grumbach

  Hands, Ladders, Fists

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Coming into the End Zone: A Memoir”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• [Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Logical, Intuitive

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• In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!

  Ajahn Chah

  Thinking, Practice, Mind

  Ajahn Chah (2001). “Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.

  M. Scott Peck

  Accomplished, Dependent, Ifs

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• It was in grasping the reality of his divine parentage as a son of God, as well as his relationship with Christ and the promise of eternal life, that Moses was able to resist the challenge presented by Satan.

  David S. Baxter

  Son, Reality, Challenges

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• Holding on to beliefs limits our experience of life. That doesn't mean that beliefs or ideas or thinking is a problem; the stubborn attitude of having to have things be a particular way, grasping on to our beliefs and thoughts, all these cause the problems. To put it simply, using your belief system this way creates a situation in which you choose to be blind instead of being able to see, to be deaf instead of being able to hear, to be dead rather than alive, asleep rather than awake.

  Pema Chodron

  Attitude, Mean, Thinking

  Pema Chodron (1996). “Awakening Loving-Kindness”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

  Plutarch

  Disease, Usual, Neighbor

  Plutarch (1881). “Plutarch's Lives”

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• Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Europe, Play, People

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• There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

  Roger Bacon

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Four

  Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.4, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Procrastination, Evil, Impatience

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