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• At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against…
• Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
• Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or…
• Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity…
• As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that…
• As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
• The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we…
• The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can…
• Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
• A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into…
• Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm…
• God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked…

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