Pure Quotes - Page 32

• People will try to block you. Some will do it just for pure hostility. But most others are just afraid of themselves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Block, People, Trying

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• It's an adversarial world outside of the safety of nirvana and enlightenment. In life, all beings need to feed on other beings just in order to exist. Some beings also like to cause others to needlessly suffer, just out of pure maliciousness

  Frederick Lenz

  Order, Safety, Suffering

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• Keep the deepest feelings of your heart to yourself. They tend to stay more pure if you do. There is a wisdom to that.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Heart, Buddhism

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• Only a pure heart, a completely pure heart can house eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, House

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• Life is composed of lines of light, fibers of energy, pulsing, still, pure being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Lines

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• If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Trying

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• The very advanced practitioners of martial arts never had to raise a hand. They could knock an opponent down without physically touching them, just with chi, pure power. We don't see too many of them anymore.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Health, Buddhism

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• The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Eden, Creative

  "The Tanner Lectures on Human Values". Book edited by Sterling McMurrin, 1980.

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• Believe in your own identity and your own opinions. Proceed with confidence, generating it, if necessary, by pure willpower. Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. Use its energy to keep yourself going.

  William Zinsser

  Believe, Writing, Ego

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• The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, New York, People

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  Dan Wheldon

  Two, Race, Able

  "Indianapolis 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies After Massive Crash", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Artist, Giving, Acting

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• Whenever I get the sort of fancy pants idea that I'm doing anything other than pure expression things start to go wrong. When I get too premeditated, things start to go wrong. I just shut that part of my brain off.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Expression, Ideas, Brain

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• Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

  Hilton Als

  Inspiration, Form

  Interview with Lily Tomlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2015.

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• Life is an endless matrix of existence. And as you experience it in that pure form, that's what we call enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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• The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• When your life becomes clear and pure, when your mind is clear and your view of life is unobstructed, then you'll be at peace with yourself. Then you will be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Views

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• The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light, pure love, and pure ecstasy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Other Worlds, Insanity

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• You have to elevate yourself to that point and bring your mind into the Godhead, into nirvana, into that perfect and pure radiant knowledge. It will not come to you. It never does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perfect, Mind, Doe

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• An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

  Criss Jami

  Water, Abuse, Overindulgence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• Tell me that the purpose of life is to have fun, and without a care in the world I'll begin wreaking havoc on everything I pass. Now that's what I call pure, honest fun.

  Criss Jami

  Fun, Care, Meaning Of Life

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.62, Criss Jami

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• Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail.

  Criss Jami

  Running, Block, Opportunity

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• Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Mother, Prayer, Passion

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