Siddhis Buddhism Quotes & Sayings

We had to have a star each week.. Possibly our program being on Sunday and having a little fun with the Bible was dangerous. — Edgar Bergen

Never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral. — L.M. Montgomery

Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence. — Dorothy Day

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist. — Bodhidharma

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on. — Swami Vivekananda

Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Tartakower once wrote that after planting a Knight in the center you can go to sleep. This is not to be taken literally, of course, but it contains more than a germ of truth. — Samuel Reshevsky

Bureaucracy was very rarely an obstruction, provided that one applied to it the insights of ordinary, everyday psychology — Alexander McCall Smith

One of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it. It is not only God who punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll. No struggling or praying will enable you to stop doing certain things, and the penalty of sin is that you gradually get used to it, until you finally come to the place where you no longer even realize that it is sin. No power, except the power that comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit, can change or prevent the inherent consequences of sin. "If we walk in the light as He is in the light ... " (1 John 1:7). For many of us, walking in the light means walking according to the standard we have set up for another person. The deadliest attitude of the Pharisees that we exhibit today is not hypocrisy but that which comes from unconsciously living a lie. — Oswald Chambers

Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back. — Jay Leno

According to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking. — Margaret Heffernan

I've always been pathologically skinny. — Jeremy Davies