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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

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adversity Art Books Threaten
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
Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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Age Aristocracy Successive Superiority Vanity
Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.
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Effort Funny Humor
The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.
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Clay Harden Same Sun
The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can’t charge it.
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Christmas Ideal Trouble
A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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July Patriotic Real
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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Events Future Life Water
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It’s not about kids and their choices. It’s about parents and their choices.
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Choices Kids Mcdonalds Themselves
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
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
One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Conceit Pride Thinking
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude.
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Also Close Convincing Distance Evidence Luxury
No one can bring to God what you can.
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Bring God Uniqueness
It’s not what’s going to happen, but who’s coming.
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Coming Happens Jesus
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.
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Believe Fleas Necks
All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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Children Compassion Spiritual
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
Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.
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Riches Safety Sea
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
Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.
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Masters Plans Smoking
I’m an actor. And I guess I’ve done so many movies I’ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
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Movie Stars Thinking
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
The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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Expand Itself Knows Universe
One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.
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Hero Milion Murder Villain
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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Gas Home Outdoors Wonderful World
Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
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Chief Embroidery Humility

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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