Anagarika Quotes & Sayings

The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul. — Anagarika Govinda

To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance. — Anagarika Govinda

Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences — Anagarika Govinda

Neither father nor son moved, but stayed face to face for hours and hours, neither looking away nor surrendering, until the sun finished its daily pilgrimage, for no day is so long that it is not ended by nightfall. — Rabih Alameddine

Sometimes a glance, a few casual words, fragments of a melody floating through the quiet air of a summer evening, a book that accidentally comes into hands, a poem or memory-laden fragrance may bring about the impulse which changes and determines our whole life. — Anagarika Govinda

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want. — Paige Butcher

We will take one hundred of every color," Ryder said over my head to Arista. "Seriously? That's a lot of polish," she replied. "Synthia wants it," he whispered into my hair, "and I want her to be happy. — Amelia Hutchins

Let me be reborn. I would like to be born again twenty-five times to spread Lord Buddha's Dhamma. — Anagarika Dharmapala

The thing about TV is it's a meritocracy. I love that aspect of it - and I've had shows that have gone on the air and been canceled. I've seen the good and the bad of it. — Doug Liman

The faculty of continual transformation ... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind — Anagarika Govinda

Do not keep what you have selfishly bottled up; pour it out, share it with the world. — Anagarika Govinda

There's so much world and sea and salt and
what I want to know is how much does it frighten you?
How much does it make you shake? — Elisabeth Hewer

Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work. — Connie Chung

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it. — Moms Mabley

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth. — Henning Mankell

Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life. — Anagarika Govinda

It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair. — Jules Verne

A real Guru's initiation is beyond the divisions of sects and creeds: it is the awakening to our own inner reality which, once glimpsed, determines our further course of development and our actions in life without the enforcement of outer rules. — Anagarika Govinda

The power of the creative imagination is not only merely content with observing the world as it is, accepting a given reality, but is capable of creating a new reality by transforming the inner as well as the outer world — Anagarika Govinda

Sometimes I don't even know why I'm writing what I'm writing...
I'm just following these people around and taking notes. — P. Anastasia

The cloud represents the creative power of the mind, which can assume any imaginable form. It is the ideal medium of creation for the enlightened mind, which manifests itself on the plane of timeless meditative vision. — Anagarika Govinda

In truth a clear-headed physicalist shouldn't be thinking any of these dualist thoughts. If pains are one and the same as C-fibres firing, then there really isn't any possibility of having 'one' without the 'other'. Once you properly appreciates physicalism, this dissociation should cease to appear possible - C-fibres with pains should strike you as no more possible than squares without rectangles. — David Papineau

The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows. — Anagarika Govinda

Surely it is the right wish that draws us to the right place. Nothing of importance happens accidentally in our life. — Anagarika Govinda

Corporeal reality is much more rich and precious than we realize. It feels good to have a body, to surge on currents of emotion, to have nerve endings, mitochondria in our cells, tangible focused energy, the embodiment of light - given a voice. — Laurie Perez

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality. — Anagarika Govinda

To the enlightened man ... whose consciousness embraces the universe, to him the universe becomes his 'body', while the physical body becomes the manifestation of the universal mind. His inner vision an expression of the highest reality, and his speech an expression of eternal truth and mantric power. — Anagarika Govinda

I shouldn't have been looking at lingerie. It naturally made me think about sexy things. Like kissing. Like Patch. — Becca Fitzpatrick

( referring the old high level road) how come there are so many Bo trees along the old road especially where there was a junction of sorts? I wondered did a long time before I gathered much later in life that all those trees marked the spots where the legendary Buddhist revivalist Anagarika Dharmapala preached during his campaign and the British, sharp enough to observe that behind the Buddhist campaign was a national campaign, which in turn, was a political campaign, which again meant that the British rule was threatened, countered by building a public lavatory wherever the Buddhists had planted a Bo tree, and true enough there were public lavatories near Bo trees at Borella, Pettah, and Kirulapona — Tissa Abeysekara

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. — Anagarika Govinda

The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites
with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates.
As soon as we are successful in silencing the restless activity of the thinking mind
and give a chance to intuition, the pure all embracing spirit in us will manifest effortlessly. — Anagarika Govinda

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak. — Heather Simmons

I shall never forget the peace of his hermitage amidst the eternal snows and the lesson he taught me: that we cannot face the Great Void before we have the strength and greatness to fill it with our entire being. Then the Void is not the negation merely of our limited personality, but the Plenum-Void which includes, embraces and nourishes it, like the womb of space in which the light moves eternally without ever being lost. — Anagarika Govinda

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody. — Anagarika Govinda