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 VAUGHANBooks are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters.
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Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it’s sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.
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All the problems of the world – child labor, corruption – are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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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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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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The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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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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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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