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From Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
- Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined -…
- I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the bare peak of…
- Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which…
- Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and…
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