Quotes About Aversion

if anger arises in the mind in response to an outside event, it's helpful to look for either the saddening or frightening aspect of that event and then take whatever measures we can to address the sadness or the fear. Knowing that negativity or aversion is a transient energy never means to ignore it. It means to see it clearly, always, and work with it wisely [p. 85].

Everything changes—an insight that can help free us from the pull of pleasure and the aversion to pain.

Aversion arises because we are so deeply conditioned to feel separate and different from others.

We see things as existing permanently and cling to anything that reinforces our concept of permanence, pushing away anything that threatens it. Attachment and aversion are the roots of all other problems, and they themselves are caused by ignorance. Thus ignorance, attachment, and aversion—what Buddhism calls the three poisons—are the origin (the second noble truth) of suffering (the first noble truth).

I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.

I hate speeches.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

I absolutely hate Take That, East 17, the Spice Girls.

I love spicy food, so I'm not sure why I have this aversion to wasabi, but I really detest it.

I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.

I was a massive arachnophobe - I just hated spiders.

Like, 100 percent, I hate spiders. I thought I really liked them, and I learned that was just false. I really can't be around spiders. It scares me so much.

Birds I am fine with - spiders are an entirely different matter.

I am claustrophobic, I hate spiders, I don't love snakes but I would take a snake over a spider and I couldn't do a sky dive.

Spiders - hate 'em.

I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.

I don't have a love for spiders.

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

I hate okra and grated mountain yam for the same reason. They're both slimy.

I hate PCs, and I hate using the mouse.

I hate Danny Kaye movies.