Quotes About Heart

Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word that means "noble or awakened heart." It is said to be present in all beings. Just as butter is inherent in milk and oil is inherent in a sesame seed, this soft spot is inherent in you and me.

The more you're willing to open your heart, the more challenges come along that make you want to shut it.

Blaming is a way to protect our hearts, to try to protect what is soft and open and tender in ourselves.

Working with obstacles is life's journey. The warrior is always coming up against dragons. Of course the warrior gets scared, particularly before the battle. It's frightening. But with a shaky, tender heart the warrior realizes that he or she is just about to step into the unknown, and then goes forth to meet the dragon.

soften, to connect with your heart and engender a basic attitude of generosity and compassion toward yourself, the archetypal coward.

Taking refuge in the buddha means that you are willing to spend your life acknowledging or reconnecting with your awakeness, learning that every time you meet the dragon you take off more armor, particularly the armor that covers your heart.

That which is threatening to ego is liberating to the heart.

Our devotion to a teacher has nothing to do with his or her lifestyle or worldly accomplishments. It's their state of mind, the quality of their heart that we resonate with. When it comes to my teacher Chögyam Trungpa, he was so outrageous in his behavior that I could never model myself after him. But I do try to model myself on his way of being. He showed me by his example that we can rouse ourselves fearlessly and encourage one another to be sane.

Can we feel the emotion and breathe it into our hearts for ourselves and everyone else? If we can remember to experiment like this even occasionally, we are training as a warrior.

The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.

You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.

Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of me And it starts from the heart til it reaches my outer me

Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.

He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.

Remember Grace, if you let anger into your heart, it will push out your ability to love.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

The infidelity that springs from the heart is not to be reached by a course of lectures on the evidences of Christianity; argument did not cause, and argument will not remove it.