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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

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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Bricklayer Bricks Question Same Walked
If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
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Becomes Experience Isolation Other Trapped
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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Common Hands People Sense
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
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Failure Nothing Philosophy Resolve Wise
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
The eyes are the amulets of the mind.
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Amulets Eye Mind
There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
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Demerits Emotionally Fish Once React
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.
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Blushes Modesty Rainbow
It turns out there’s only one thing that capuchins really, really love – and that’s sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it.
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Body Long Sweet Weight
Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Every Flattery Man Woman
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Great Instinct Truth Worship
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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Nations Nice Poor Would Be
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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Details Men Patience
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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Conclusion Research Results Reviews Show
Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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Atheism Atheist God Positive

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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