Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.
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Bodhidharma on cling
Bodhidharma93 quotes“Once you stop clinging and let things be, you’ll be free, even of birth and death. You’ll transform everything.”
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
LucretiusLucretius Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
Adam GopnikAdam Gopnik If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states
Abdurrahman WahidAbdurrahman Wahid Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.
Gloria SteinemGloria Steinem He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it’s just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
Anne FrankAnne Frank When we cling to what we know, we miss how could we grow.
Sophia JoanSophia Joan If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.
Alan WattsAlan Watts When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
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