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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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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
— Maya Angelou
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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
— Natalie Babbitt
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It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
— Dan Millman
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit…
— Dawna Markova
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I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk…
— Dawna Markova
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Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
— Erich Fromm
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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…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
— Carl Jung
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Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the…
— Edward Zwick
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The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents,…
— Laurens van der Post
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The unlived life is not worth examining.
— Old Tom Morris
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…
— John Boorman
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