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"The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."
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"Stolen moments create a feeling of enjoyment in our "intensive time awareness. The glow and the intensity of those instants can guide us throughout a whole lifetime. They can expose a second or a third dimension of the daily events and shed an expounding light on all the little details we encounter. ['Stolen moments']"

"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."

"I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life."

"Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear."

"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."

"The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath."

"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."

"Be control of your mind."

"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."

"The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that."
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"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

"It would seem that to be incapable of sitting and watching with the mind completely at rest is to be incapable of experiencing the world in which we live to the full. For one does not know the world simply in thinking about it and doing about it. One must first experience it more directly, and prolong the experience without jumping to conclusions."

"Not long ago Congress voted, with much patriotic rhetoric, for the imposition of severe penalties upon anyone presuming to burn the flag of the United States. Yet the very Congressmen who passed this law are responsible, by acts of commission or omission, for burning, polluting, and plundering the territory that the flag is supposed to represent. Therein, they exemplified the peculiar andperhaps fatal fallacy of civilization: the confusion of symbol with reality."

"How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god."

"The realm of liberation is absolutely incommensurable with the relativities of higher and lower, better and worse, gain and loss, since these are all disadvantages of the ego."

"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
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