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- The trouble is that you think you have time.
- Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
- At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
- We can always begin again.
- Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
- When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us…
- It is our commitment to wholeness that matters, the willingness to unfold in every deep aspect of our being.
- The best of modern therapy is much like a process of shared meditation, where therapist and client sit together, learning to pay close attention to…
- Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.
- Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
- Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
- Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.
- When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
- Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
- True love is not for the faint-hearted.
- Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.
- Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
- There is no higher happiness than peace.
- It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.
- To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
- Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.
- As we step out of the way new things are born.
- There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.
- To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
- The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento