Quotes on Grasping

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you can not turn to other account than mere delight.

It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended._x000D_ _x000D_ In Illumination, all things appear as is. _x000D_ _x000D_ Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom. _x000D_ _x000D_ The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.

Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a balanced state of being and highly intelligent. Self-consciousness inhibits this intelligent, balanced state of being. By opening, by dropping our self-conscious grasping, we see not only the surface of an object, but we see the whole way through.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.