Suchness Buddhism Quotes & Sayings

To hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first ... acceptance totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are [;] ... the second ... that one must never, in one's life, accept ... injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one's strength. — James Baldwin

In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence. — Frederick Lenz

This dream of our youth will fade out as the splendor Fades from the skies when the sun sinks to sleep. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I ain't gonna live the next one. — Fetty Wap

I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z. — Estelle

Remove the temptation to settle for anything short of what you deserve. — Lorii Myers

Western science has made nature intelligible in terms of its symmetries and regularities, analyzing its most wayward forms into components of a regular and measurable shape. As a result we tend to see nature and to deal with it as an "order" from which the element of spontaneity has been "screened out." But this order is maya, and the "true suchness" of things has nothing in common with the purely conceptual aridities of perfect squares, circles, or triangles - except by spontaneous accident. Yet this is why the Western mind is dismayed when ordered conceptions of of the universe break down. and when the basic behavior of the physical world is found to be a "principle of uncertainty. — Alan W. Watts

Dharma has several connotations in South Asian religions, but in Buddhism it has two basic, interrelated meanings: dharma as 'teaching' as found in the expression Buddha Dharma, and dharma as 'reality-as-is' (abhigama-dharma). The teaching is a verbal expression of reality-as-is that consists of two aspects-the subject that realizes and the object that is realized. Together they constitute 'reality-as-is;' if either aspect is lacking, it is not reality-as-is. This sense of dharma or reality-as-is is also called suchness (tathata) or thatness (tattva) in Buddhism. — Taitetsu Unno

Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things; they want to catch the infinite and nail it down to something finite. Impossible! — Seth Adam Smith

We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is. — Catherine Doherty

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter.
Anything can happen, though.
Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives. — David Wroblewski

I'd love a drug that was good for you, I was thinking about ecstacy with Vitamin B. — Gavin Rossdale

The agony of man is always longer than the fleeting moments of bliss. The trick is to reverse those two. — Ben Midland

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels. — Holly Holm

I'm an actress, I live in L.A., I work in Hollywood. But I've learned that if you're too skinny, they'll say something about it. If you're not skinny enough, they'll say something about it. I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here. — Simon Van Booy

I think that's a mistake if [Aaron Rodgers] does not throw at [Richard Sherman]. Now, he doesn't have to make it personal vendetta against him because I'm sure all year, all he's heard is how he did not throw on Richard Sherman. — Reggie Bush

Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist. — Val Kilmer