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“You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
― Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
“Kneading memory makes the dough of fiction; which we know, sometimes never stops rising.”
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“Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.”
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
― Wherever You Go, There You Are
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