Hsing Yun quotes

“Intention is the core of all conscious life. Conscious intention colors and moves everything.”
-- Hsing Yun

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“Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures] that should ever lead anyone to become intolerant. Our goal as Buddhists is to learn to accept all kinds of people and to help all kinds of people discover the wisdom of the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha”
-- Hsing Yun

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“Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.”
-- Hsing Yun

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“Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.”
-- Hsing Yun

Source : Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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“When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.”
-- Hsing Yun

Source : Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”

“Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.”

“I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It was always part of the plan to move into acting.”

“Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”

“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.”

“Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.68, Lulu.com

“But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation

“I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.”