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 VAUGHANHope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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On the one hand, it’s common sense it’s hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are interconnected and their health is, too.
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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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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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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Discipline means protection from one’s own wanton interest.
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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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The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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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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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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You cannot speak of the ocean to a frog that lives in a well.
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A nation has character only when it is free.
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Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then … pick out his brains.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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