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  • There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.

    Motorcycle   Looks   Sand  
  • Heaven is in a grain of sand.

  • As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.

    Moving   Moon   Littles  
  • Faith as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains.

    Moving   Mountain   Tiny  
  • You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

    Change   Evil   Decision  
    A Wizard of Earthsea ch. 3 (1968)
  • Like an hourglass with a certain number of grains of sand within it, God has appointed your life to last only a certain number of days, and you have absolutely no idea how many there are.... In God's presence, consider: I have no idea when my life will end. All I know is that death will come for me eventually. Am I doing anything to prepare for the real possibility that God may call me, sooner rather than later? If he called me into eternity today, would I be ready?

    Real   Ideas   Numbers  
  • I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?

    People   May   Matter  
    Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.
  • When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

    Heart   Self   Sand  
    1952 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.
  • Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?

    Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.606, Wordsworth Editions
  • What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.

    Hands   Voice   Sound  
    "Boy Meets Girl (The Boy Series)". Book by Meg Cabot, January 6, 2004.
  • There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

    Beach   Stars   Spring  
  • I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

    Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.635, Simon and Schuster
  • If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

    Acting   Pearls   Sand  
  • I don't want to sit on the sidelines and not value the gift of being here. Instead of the idea of time ticking away, the grains of sand running out, I try to think of time as giving me another grain of sand, another gift. So time passing is an accumulation, rather than a diminishing.

  • My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

  • Why did you make it so hard for me? I'd rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.

    Country   Beach   Ocean  
  • There is nothing but God, nothing but the Goddess, nothing but Spirit in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.

    Ken Wilber (1998). “The Eye of Spirit: An Integral Vision for a World Gone Slightly Mad”, Shambhala Publications
  • It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

    Beach   Stars   Sky  
    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.141, Random House
  • Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

    Stars   Science   Space  
  • From an endless beach of reality, we take a grain of sand and call it the world.

    Beach   Reality   World  
  • Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at something enormous and black in its nethermost depths. Maybe it was the bottom - so deep that not even light could touch it. And yet, down in those impossible depths, she thought she could see tiny lights sparkling. She stared uncertainly at the tiny glimmerings. They seemed almost like scattered grains of sand lit from within; in some places they clustered like colonies, faint and twinkling. Like stars.

    Stars   Ocean   Dark  
  • Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small.

  • Eternity is not a long time; rather, it is another dimension. It is that dimension to which time-thinking shuts us. And so there never was a creation. Rather, there is a continuous creating going on. This energy is pouring into every cell of our being right now, every board and brick of the buildings we sit in, every grain of sand and wisp of wind.

    Thinking   Cells   Wind  
    Joseph Campbell, David Kudler (2003). “Myths of Light: Eastern Metaphors of the Eternal”, p.52, New World Library
  • I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

  • From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes.

  • Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

    Ocean   Bird   Sides  
    Truman Capote (2001). “In Cold Blood”, p.76, Vintage
  • In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

    Song: Every Grain of Sand, Album: Shot of Love, 1981
  • I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

    Sea   World   Infinite  
  • For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets.

    Stars   Heart   Humble  
    Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.115
  • God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God’s merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.

    Father   Waiting   House  
    Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.14, TAN Books
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