"Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being." — Peter Matthiessen
"Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being."
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Peter Matthiessen
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35 Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of…
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Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had…
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I meditate for the last time on this mountain that is bare, though others all around are white with snow.…
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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…
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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…
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The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension,…
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I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black…
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure…
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Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time,…
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In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes…
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