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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 Vaughan

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.
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Christmas Motivational New Year
Hay smells different to lovers and horses.
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Different Horse Smell
They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.
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Book Depend Give Science Strength Upon
Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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Law Overdue Today
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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Elderly Funny Witty
A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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Breath Death Ghost Learning More
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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Adversity Knows Pleasure
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
O hour, of all hours, the most blesse’d upon earth, The bless’d hour of our dinners!
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Dinner Earth Eating
Evil is only of this world. In the other world there is neither good nor evil; all there is, is beaut).
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Evil Other World Worlds
Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.
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Baseball Parking Space Umpires
Remembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
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Deceit Remembrance World
There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?
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Coming Going Music Real
Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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Balance Comprehensive Down Thinking
Walk 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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Along Busy Early Morning Walk Wonder
If you think that one individual can’t make a difference in the world, consider what one cigar can do in a nine-room house.
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Differences House Thinking

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.

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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.

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