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“When the reins of concentration are loose, we flail in all directions and bring great suffering to ourselves.”
― Rabbi David A. Cooper, A Heart of Stillness: A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Meditation

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“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. Man is made in such a way that he is never so much attached to anything as he is to his suffering. And it is necessary to be free from suffering. No one who is not free from suffering, who has not sacrificed his suffering, can work [on himself]…. Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.10”
― Rabbi David A. Cooper, A Heart of Stillness: A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Meditation

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“He who believes that he can reach God by his exertions hurls himself into an endless torment; and he who believes that he can reach Him without exertions, hurls himself into an endless wishful dream.17”
― Rabbi David A. Cooper, A Heart of Stillness: A Complete Guide to Learning the Art of Meditation

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