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"The most challenging and frustrating, yet thoughtful the poignant novel I’ve ever read. Asks the reader to confront many challenging issues that raise moral and ethical questions, yet leaves no time to answer as the novel demands the reader’s full concentration on each page, each paragraph each sentence, and each word. Amazing." — Nov 08, 2019 11:57PM
"The most challenging and frustrating, yet thoughtful the poignant novel I’ve ever read. Asks the reader to confront many challenging issues that raise moral and ethical questions, yet leaves no time to answer as the novel demands the reader’s full concentration on each page, each paragraph each sentence, and each word. Amazing." — Nov 08, 2019 11:57PM
This inability to grasp the complexity and possible duration of withdrawal could be referred to as the 'unbelievability factor'.
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“All of humanity’s problems,” Blaise Pascal said in 1654, “stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Stillness is the Key
― Stillness is the Key
“Through mindful attention in the moment, we see the impermanent nature of phenomena and understand the happiness of nongrasping.”
― One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
― One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
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“The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. You're in it. You're already in it. What is the purpose of all this living if it's only to get some place else and then when you're there you're not happy anyway, you want to be some place else. It's always for 'when I retire,' 'when I graduate college,' 'when I make enough money,' 'when I get married,' 'when I get divorced,' 'when the kids move out.' It's like, wait a minute, this is it. This is your life. We only have moments. This moment's as good as any other. It's perfect.”
― Mindfulness for Beginners: Explore the Infinite Potential that Lies Within This Very Moment
― Mindfulness for Beginners: Explore the Infinite Potential that Lies Within This Very Moment
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