Prostrations In Buddhism Quotes & Sayings

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice. — Julie Andrews Edwards

Time is the speed at which the past decays. — David Mitchell

We pass by the joys of life without knowing we've missed anything. — Steve Hagen

We're going to have to debunk the myth that Africa is a heaven for black people
especially black women. We've been the mule of the world there and the mule of the world here. — Alice Walker

Those who shoot in competition seem to have a remarkably high hit potential and survival ratio in actual gunfights. — Massad Ayoob

An eerie, chilling voice interrupted him to reverberate through the house.

"You believe you are safe, but you will never be safe from me. My reach is limitless, my capabilities legion. Sleep fitfully and avoid the shadows, for know that I am coming for you. When I arrive, you will pay for what you did. — G.S. Jennsen

All the possessions in the world cannot fill an empty heart with love. — Joseph Pisani

Prostration: placing the body in reverence, to submit, to surrender. In many faiths it is used to relinquish the ego. In Tibetan tantric Buddhism they do one hundred thousand prostrations to overcome pride. In Islam, prostration has been known to overcome many diseases. — Eve Ensler

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors. — Thomas Huxley

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, — Eugene Ionesco