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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
“I have tried to live my life such that in the hour of my death I would feel joy rather than fear.”
Quote re: Death
“All beings are the heirs of their own karma. Their happiness or unhappiness depends on their actions, not upon my wishes.”
― Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
― Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”
― Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
― Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
“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
“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
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“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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