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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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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it…
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Books worth reading are worth re-reading.
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You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.
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The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
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I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
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Not every book has to be loaded with symbolism, irony, or musical language, but it seems to me that every book-at least…
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From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their…
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What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the…
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Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.
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The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No…
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific…
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