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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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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.
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If you have grasped the purpose of life there is no point in trying to make life into something it is not…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped…
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We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than…
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He who attempts to draw any conclusion whatever as to the nation's wealth or poverty from the mere fact of a favorable…
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Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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