Kuehl Electric Quotes & Sayings

Pema calls these activities "the six ways of compassionate living": generosity, patience, discipline, exertion, meditation, and prajna, or wisdom. The basis for all these practices is the cultivation of maitri, an unconditional loving-kindness with ourselves that says, "Start where you are." In Buddhist terms, this path is known as bodhisattva activity. Simply put, a bodhisattva is one who aspires to act from an awakened heart. In terms of the Shambhala teachings, it is the path of warriorship. To join these two streams, Pema likes to use the term warrior-bodhisattva, which implies a fresh and forward-moving energy that is willing to enter into suffering for others' benefit. Such action relates to overcoming the self-deception, self-protection, and other habitual reactions that we use to keep ourselves secure - in a prison of concepts. By gently and precisely cutting through these barriers of ego, we develop a direct experience of bodhichitta. — Pema Chodron

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments. — Rudy Rucker

It's my mission in life to put people on the screen who don't get normally represented. — Sarah Gavron

I can grow a pair. — Madeline Downs

I won't stop you. I want this to happen, because I want you to be safe. And yet I want to be with you. The two desires are impossible to reconcile. — Stephenie Meyer

Have you ever noticed how 'What the hell' is always the right decision to make? — Terry Johnson

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love. — Alexander The Great

You cannot imagine my emotion behind the yew hedge ... — Samuel Richardson

If it had been great sex I doubt I'd remember he tooted between thrusts. — Laura Castoro

My mom usually helps her aunt prepare the food, which my grandfather always says is "too dry" even if it's soup. And her aunt will then cry and lock herself in the bathroom. — Stephen Chbosky