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“If there’s a solution to the problem, what’s the point of worrying? If there’s no solution to the problem, what’s the point of worrying”
Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
“A friend of mine who’s dieting has a Post-it on her refrigerator door on which she’s written, “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.” You may discover that none of your drivel tastes as good as vacancy feels.”
Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
“Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.”
Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
“Don’t use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.”
Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
“We Westerners grew up having our most poignant feelings invoked by the I-IV-V chord progression that runs from Bach to pop.”
Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
“Just to have ordinary, garden-variety human consciousness is unspeakably extraordinary. We are the luckiest of mud. No need to consider further: we’d be perfectly justified to stop right here with tears of wonder and gratitude pouring down our cheeks.”
Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
“Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all.”
Dean Sluyter, Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction
“Every time we have the opportunity to sit down and practice, . . . take three seconds only. Three seconds. . . . Look up and say, “Thank God.” . . . Because you’re so grateful, you’re so glad, that instead of doing something else you’re about to start practicing, which you have to take as a gift from God, because you don’t have the necessity to be breaking stones in the mine, or driving a truck from Oklahoma to Key West, or something like that. You’re sitting down with your beloved instrument—practicing!”
Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice
“I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; by paths they have not known I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them.”
Dean Sluyter, Fear Less: Living Beyond Fear, Anxiety, Anger, and Addiction

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