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To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right.
“Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.”
― The Happiness Project
― The Happiness Project
“She was a Canadian and had all their easy social graces.”
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“On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of despair is in reality a gain rather than a loss. Any experience is to be regarded as a part of one’s assets.”
― Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
― Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy
“Merleau-Ponty’s central philosophical insight about perception, then, is that it is not just contingently but essentially bodily. Perception is not a private mental event, nor is our own body just one more thing in the world alongside others”
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