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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for…
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Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…
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This world is painted on a wild dark metal
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
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My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
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Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about…
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me…
— Boethius
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This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that…
— Lyn Hejinian
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There's an elegiac quality in watching [American wilderness] go, because it's our own myth, the American frontier, that's deteriorating before our eyes.…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Blumenthal goes straight to the heart in these poems. Gorgeously wrought, surprising, true, wise, elegiac, they leave me with a sense of…
— Lynn Freed
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It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects…
— Susan Sontag
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore…
— Richard Russo
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Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling…
— Harold Bloom
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As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history…
— Charlie Pierce
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