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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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In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to…
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Nothing is so sour that it can't be sweetened by a good attitude.
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Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
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Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the…
— Blaise Pascal
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to…
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Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move…
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
— William Hazlitt
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Parody is homage gone sour.
— Brendan Gill
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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
— John Milton
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From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us.
— Teresa of Avila
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