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"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of
giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity,
and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be
intended for enjoyment." ---------------------------- "A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to
teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to
give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of
conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that
which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you
already know in the depth of your being. The spiritual teacher is there
to uncover and reveal to you that dimension of the inner depth that is
also peace." ---------------------------- "Most sets of values would give rise to universes that,
although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to
wonder at that beauty."
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"Until recently, I thought of meditation as the
exclusive province of bearded swamis, unwashed hippies, and fans of John
Tesh. |
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Palimpsest Catherynne M. Valente, “Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like
running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know
parameters, protocols. You have to learn them so well that they become
like a language: to have music always so that the silence doesn't
overwhelm you, to perform your work exquisitely well so that your time
is filled. You have to allow yourself to open up until you are the exact
size of the place you live, no more or else you get restless. No less,
or else you drown. There are rules; there are ways of being and not
being.” |
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