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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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I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of…
— Diablo Cody
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All of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird I used to do a New…
— Robert Pattinson
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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.…
— Peter Matthiessen
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It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.
— Roland Emmerich
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I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion…
— Robert Reich
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Things are pretty good in Canada. We weathered the recession fairly well. And, of course, were up here up living here, we're…
— Rick Mercer
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I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?
— Dusty Baker
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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For me, personally, I grew up watching American heroes and American movies and TV.
— Sean Maguire
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