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Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom from a Monk's Bowl

by Om Swami

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Fully Engaged: Using the Practicing Mind in Daily Life

by Thomas M. Sterner

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Karma Yoga

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“The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.”
― Anand Neelakantan, Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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“Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe”
― Susan Cain

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“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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