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“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
“All of humanity’s problems,” Blaise Pascal said in 1654, “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” In”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“Joe,” he said, “how does it feel that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel has earned in its entire history?” “I’ve got something he can never have,” Heller replied. “And what on earth could that be?” Vonnegut asked. “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience. Never corner an opponent, and always assist him to save face. Put yourself in his shoes—so as to see things through his eyes. Avoid self-righteousness like the devil—nothing is so self-blinding.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“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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