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More than thirty years ago, when I first entered the monastery, the monks gave me a small book called “The Essential Discipline for Daily Use,” written by the Buddhist monk Doc The from Bao Son pagoda, and they told me to memorize it. It
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“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
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“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”
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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
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“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Eleonora
― Eleonora
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
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