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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,…
• Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for…
• Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.
• I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow. Like the…
• This world is painted on a wild dark metal
• 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.…
• My eye is fixed not on the ending of the book but on the feeling of that ending.
• Where to begin? Do we measure the relaxing of the feet? The moment when the eye glimpses the hawk, when instinct functions?…
• The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once…
• I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white,…
• Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
• 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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