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The Classic Collection of Gertrude Stein. Illustrated: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, The Making of Americans, Composition as Explanation

by Gertrude Stein

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THREE LIVES (American Classics Series)

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No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required

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“All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.”
― Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

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“Can I really remember, over and over again, that, contrary to all indications, fulfilling my desires will not be as satisfying as lessening them? Simple, but not easy.”
― Jay Michaelson, Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

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“Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

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“As Kurzban has summarized this finding, “We think we’re better than average at not being biased in thinking that we’re better than average.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

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“So if meditation did liberate you from obedience to these feelings, it would be, in a certain sense, dispelling an illusion—the illusion you implicitly subscribe to when you follow the feeling, the illusion that the rage, and for that matter the revenge it inspires, is fundamentally “good.” It turns out the feeling isn’t even good in the basic sense of self-interest.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

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