Asian Quotes

The nature of yearning is urgent so as to guarantee evolution, change.

The essential war within, and the cause of suffering, begins with the presumption that yearning, impulse and curiosity, desire and question, exist so as to end them. To attain, to acquire, to answer.

The subjective experience of intense pain (“That’s all I can take”) corresponds exactly to one’s subjective experience in relation to truth (“That’s all I can take”).

By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer.

My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing.

If you are “playing” too much or “working” too much, you will have a reaction on the other side, which indicates your pace is off, too slow or too fast.

Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation.

The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.

In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose.

What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less.

The challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them.

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

If you know what life really wants, and if you know what you really want, you can begin to create the relationship.

Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems).

I think that as a species we’ve played at being the self-indulgent, spoiled adolescent way too long, and now there are permanent damages and absolute risks that most people are ignoring.

Through the realization of the potentials and possibilities within and outside of you, one connects imagination with reality. What could be becomes so.

The purest definition of “religious” is: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality.

We do have some capacity to determine how things evolve, and how we evolve, individually and as a community or race. That’s a tremendous freedom and a tremendous responsibility.

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

Good humour was miles behind a second cup of morning tea. It was too early for nonsense.

How much does he lack himself who must have many things?

The divorced Indian lady combines every fantasy about the liberated, wicked Western woman with the safety net of basic submissive familiarity.

I'm a South Asian female that talks about relationships and periods and dating and all these things.