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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the…
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear.…
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the…
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we…
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise…
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Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest…
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else,…
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The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good.…
— Anthony of Padua
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The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply.…
— Frank Laubach
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Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes…
— Sun Tzu
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Somehow, one never really runs away, or I never have, and I find that the faster I go the more catches up…
— Joy Hester
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The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.
— Robin Sharma
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A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.
— Deborah Wiles
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The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it…
— Ivan Turgenev
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises…
— Ajahn Chah
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Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at…
— George Eliot
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Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal,…
— Earl Weaver
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I think that we’re a culture that runs away from death, for good reason. Nobody really wants to think about the fact…
— Jon Foreman
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Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.
— Paulo Coelho
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