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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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What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich…
— Rose Schneiderman
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You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.
— Joel Osteen
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You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day,…
— Simon T. Bailey
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Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration…
— Aviva Chomsky
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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and…
— Bryant H. McGill
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Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.
— Paul Celan
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary…
— Neil Gaiman
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The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Always keep a calm mind,it is our inner happiness. By letting go of our flaws,mistakes and criticism within our thoughts,we 'll free…
— Cristina Orante
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