Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.
The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they're attached to appearances, they're unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.
Normal. She wasn't normal. A girl Graced with killing, a royal thug? A girl who didn't want the husbands Randa pushed on her, perfectly handsome and thoughtful men, a girl who panicked at the thought of a baby at her breast, or clinging to her ankles.
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.
How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.
Freedom from clinging allows us bring love into all aspects of our life.
And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.
I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous doom overtook the elder world. Later, as the earth's span closed, the transferred minds would again migrate through time and space -- to another stopping place in the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury. But there would be races after them, clinging pathetically to the cold planet and burrowing to its horror-filled core, before the utter end.
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.
Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.
My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.
Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.
A distinction must be made between that writing which enables us to hold on to life even as we are clinging to old hurts and wounds and that writing which offers to us a space where we are able to confront reality in such a way that we live more fully. Such writing is not an anchor that we mistakenly cling to so as not to drown. It is writing that truly rescues, that enables us to reach the shore, to recover.
He said that hate makes the world go round People are afraid of what they really want They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be They condition themselves to not embrace what they are Love is a clinging nausea I tried to disagree with him It was no use I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes.
The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!
I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.