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This will likely be one of the best books I read this year if not one of the best I read ever. I cannot express how impactful and penetrating the wisdom in these assembled words has been to me at this stage of my life and just as I was beginning Zaze
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The mind commands the body and immediately it obeys. The mind orders itself, and meets resistance. —ST. AUGUSTINE,
“Good timber does not grow with ease: The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees;”
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“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“There may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one comes to warm themselves by it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke”
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“I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything.
Life just happens to them. They get Dy on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.”
― Heretics of Dune
Life just happens to them. They get Dy on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.”
― Heretics of Dune
“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
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