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“Rise above our physical limitations. Find hobbies that rest and replenish us. Develop a reliable, disciplined routine. Spend time getting active outdoors. Seek out solitude and perspective. Learn to sit—to do nothing when called for. Get enough sleep and rein in our workaholism. Commit to causes bigger than ourselves.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“What is it? Why does it matter? Do I need it? Do I want it? What are the hidden costs? Will I look back from the distant future and be glad I did it? If I never knew about it at all—if the request was lost in the mail, if they hadn’t been able”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“Each of us must break the link in the chain of what the Buddhists call samsara, the continuation of life’s suffering from generation to generation.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“My little French friends were, I was astonished to find, allowed to have a cigarette on Sunday, were given watered vin ordinaire at”
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
― Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“baking bread splits in places and those cracks, while not intended in the baker’s art, catch our eye and serve to stir our appetite,” or the “charm and allure” of nature’s process, the “stalks of ripe grain bending low, the frowning brow of the lion, the foam dripping from the boar’s mouth.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
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