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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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Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves…
— Blaise Pascal
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So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day…
— George Jung
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Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,
— James Salter
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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…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a…
— Arthur Nersesian
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I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.
— Jane Wagner
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While we wait for life, life passes
— Seneca the Younger
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
— Eric Idle
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Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.
— George Jung
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Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone…
— John Henry Newman
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Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the…
— Ignazio Silone
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