Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
BILL VAUGHANWalk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions – and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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When myth meets myth, the collision is very real.
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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
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What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It’s the end of a phase which began in 2002.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.
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Whether it is fun to go to bed with a good book depends a great deal on who’s reading it.
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The most malignant of enemies is the lust which abides within.
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What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.
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