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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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Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient…
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Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.
— Nadeem Aslam
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somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in…
— John Eldredge
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The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of…
— John Cheever
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The fact is that no species has ever had such wholesale control over everything on earth, living or dead, as we now…
— David Attenborough
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We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
— Frederic William Maitland
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In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
— Peter Matthiessen
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At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies…
— Safak Pavey
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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
— Howard Mumford Jones
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Once this heart was a stream, waves of love trembled within. Now lies there a sandy lake, emptied of love numbness prevails.…
— Senoraroy
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