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- Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake,…
- It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to…
- Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
- If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
- Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
- In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this…
- We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This perception is not…
- By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we…
- It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn…
- It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines…
- We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong