"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."

Being, Rest, World

23

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world."

Exlpore more Being quotes

"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Being, Cause, School

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

Nicole Appleton, Canadian Musician

Being, Joy

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

Will Friedle, American Actor

Being, Games

"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."

Malin Akerman, Swedish Actress

Being, Favorite

"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."

Ryan Gosling, Canadian Actor

Being,

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Being, Exercise

"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

Billy Bragg, British Musician

Being, Job

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Being, First, Will, Woman

"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

Joseph Bologna, American Actor

Being, Books, Day, Want

"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."

Alex Grey, American Artist

Being, Consciousness, Identity, Now

Explore more quotes by Satish Kumar

"I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother."

Family

"I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey."

Friendship

"We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road."

Woman

"Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery."

Reflection

"It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads."

Politics

"So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence."

Age

"If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak."

Hell

"One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings."

Religion

"This gives us more time to attend the inner need."

Time

"Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food."

Food