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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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I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
— Mike Tyson
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I prefer to have a great time and to keep my wits about me.
— Richard Branson
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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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I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I get up each morning, gather my wits, pick up the paper and read the obits. If I'm not there, I know…
— Pete Seeger
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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
— Ben Okri
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Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as…
— William Shakespeare
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Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear.
— Jeaniene Frost
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So is there any part of you that’s not a lethal weapon? (Kiara) No. Even my wits are sharpened. (Nykyrian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I have taken to living by my wits.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Do you need anything before I go? I want you to return my wits, I long to say.
— R.L. LaFevers
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I had to use my wits or else I'd have been sunk - and nothings going to sink me. Everyone was always…
— Marilyn Monroe
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