Quotes About Beings

The words asura and rakshasa are often used interchangeably but they refer to two different groups of beings. Asuras are children of Kashyapa; they live under the ground and fight the devas. Rakshasas are children of Pulastya; they live in forests and fight humans. Kashyapa and Pulastya are Brahma's mind-born sons.

Mindfulness should guide all your actions and your spiritual endeavors. Whatever you do, always apply three essential points: undertake the action with the intention of doing so for the good of all beings; execute it with perfect concentration, free of attachment to concepts of subject, object, and action; and, finally, dedicate the merit you have created to the enlightenment of all beings.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

There are beings that we consider not very spiritually evolved. That does not mean they are negative.

Those who first acquired language and tried to think the human situation were utterly overwhelmed. They could cope only by imagining that there were greater invisible beings who could and did understand and control both the human psyche and the world. 'I can't make sense of it, but I have to believe that there is a larger perspective within which it all makes sense.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

Nature is the great power we have to submit to, but living beings are the ones we should dominate.

If we are inherently spiritual creatures, we are by our nature creative beings, yet we live in the fear that if we aspire to be more we will discover ourselves to be less.

What I'm finding is there's an awful lot about adoption and relinquishment and the complicated nature of family that we, as human beings, haven't been able to have a real discussion about yet without a lot of censorship.

Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings.

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.

Mankind isn't the first owner of the earth; there were Beings here before his coming -- and now, survivals of hideously ancient epochs. Maybe spheres of alien dimensions press unseen on this material universe today.

Only a daily renewed astonishment at things as they are can save us from the idols; it is our love of real processes and actual beings that keeps us sane.

The core reality of the fairy as postmortem being for deceased humans (or other breathing creatures in our world) has been laid bare. When we bring to mind the intimate overlap and interchange that the Fairy-world or spirit-world has with the ordinary world of experience, we must remember that fairy-beings can just as easily and accurately be described as the pre-natal beings of humankind or other breathing creatures.

a free economy is an economy run by free beings. And free beings are responsible beings. Economic transactions in a regime of private property depend not only on distinguishing mine from yours, but also on relating me to you. Without accountability, nobody is to be trusted, and without trust the virtues that are attributed to the free economy would not arise. Every

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home and come to understand our own nature as spiritual beings.

Socratic, they call it in college. All kinds of back and forth, designed to elicit truths implicitly known by all rational beings.

It would seem that an overabundance of thinking beings is a dangerous thing, if it reduces them to the status of sand.

Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the aim of one cause or another.