Causes Quotes

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

Self-hate doesn't create enlightenment. It just causes you to not enjoy the current moment.

Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.

It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.

Most people think happiness comes from experiences in the world. The fulfillment of desire causes a type of happiness. But as soon as they experience passes, the happiness passes.

The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.

Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.

When you cause something to happen it causes a shift in your awareness. Shifts in your awareness ultimately will result in a pattern shift in your life.

The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.

You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.

If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

Lady Maccon cogitated. She would like to encourage this new spirit of social-mindedness. If Felicity needed anything in her life, it was a cause. Then she might stop nitpicking everyone else.

The worst thing baldness causes is loneliness.

Do as little as necessary to appear to be doing something without actually committing to a cause or course of action.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

She had something down there twice as big as mine. That's why I say you better watch where you stroke, cause it could turn out, turn out to be a joke.

I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.

The only thing that can cause your body to hurt in your energy processing centers, [chakras] is when you are losing Spirit through one of them.

When I find my consort, I plan to stab him in the heart before he can cause me a moment's unease. -Taliyah

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

When I was a young child my folks would ask me why I was rocking back and forth and I'd answer "cause of the music in my head!"

The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.

You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet.

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves to theorize concerning him rather than to obey him.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom.

I'm just beginning to get a sense for ways I can use golf - or perhaps mountain biking at some point in time - to stay focused on causes that are dear to my heart.

One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'

I would like to get nominated for a Grammy, but I don't set out to do that anymore, though, 'cause I never felt like I got my just due in the business, period anyway.

Nowadays when you buy music its like you're donating to that cause, because you most likely could hear it in some capacity for free.

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

It is possible for the devil to inhabit animals the same way he inhabits humans and that causes a sin of lust.

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.