#bud

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#art #budget #call #end #end product

When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection. ↗

— Richard Gere

#buddhism #connection #intuitive #karma #past

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me. ↗

— Richard Gere

#enormous #had #impact #me #tibetan

Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self and transformation of society, you can still feel a compassionate impulse to help its suffering beings. In that case you tend to view the personal and the political in a sequential fashion. "I'll get enlightened first, and then I'll engage in social action." Those who are not engaged in spiritual pursuits put it differently: "I'll get my head straight first, I'll get psychoanalyzed, I'll overcome my inhibitions or neuroses or my hang-ups (whatever description you give to samsara) and then I'll wade into the fray." Presupposing that world and self are essentially separate, they imagine they can heal one before healing the other. This stance conveys the impression that human consciousness inhabits some haven, or locker-room, independent of the collective situation -- and then trots onto the playing field when it is geared up and ready. It is my experience that the world itself has a role to play in our liberation. Its very pressures, pains, and risks can wake us up -- release us from the bonds of ego and guide us home to our vast, true nature. For some of us, our love of the world is so passionate that we cannot ask it to wait until we are enlightened. ↗

— Joanna Macy

#dharma #experience

You know, sometimes guys work with other guys because they're buddies off the track, not necessarily because they're buddies on the track. Sometimes you've got that going against you or for you. ↗

— Jeff Gordon

#because #buddies #going #got #guys

Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of the world, our Brussels budget contributions, the tiny part of our economy dependent on sales to the EU, the vast part subjected to EU regulation - Euro-enthusiasts quickly shift their ground and start harrumphing about influence. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#brussels #budget #contributions #debate #deficit

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#because #budgetary #canada #come #deficit

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#big budget #blue #budget #course #effects

I was able to promote a strong defense budget when it could have been cut a lot more severely. ↗

— Vicky Hartzler

#been #budget #could #cut #defense

Since September 11th Congress has created the Department of Homeland Security, more than doubled the homeland security budget and implemented a bipartisan overhaul of our intelligence systems. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#budget #congress #created #department #doubled