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"There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you."
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"It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars."
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"Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes, He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return."
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Personal Development
"The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
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Personal Development
"Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit."
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Personal Development
"The silence is not suppression; instead, it is all there is."
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"Hurry always empties a soul."
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Personal Development
"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."
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"The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence inside myself in order to forge a deeper and closer relationship with all of nature. Only when I attain absolute quietude shall I understand the supreme virtue of humanity and understand the meaning of both life and death. Only when I achieve absolute stillness shall I come to a perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things."
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"Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible."
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"Your greatest strength is in your ability to remain still."
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"To some extent, emotions are universal and can be treated that way; no matter what the participants' orientation or preference, they have sex for the same reasons and can experience the same array of emotions in the process. But there are three important distinctions to be made: 1. The logistics of physiology 2. The basics of sexual attraction 3. Cultural impact on character and situation."
Social
"So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS."
Entertainment
"If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle."
Emotion
"I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough."
Nature
"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."
Lifestyle
"The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost of my vanished house rise around me, a cold mountain wind thrumming past its walls, and thought that, if I reached down, I could feel Adso's soft gray fur under my fingers. I swallowed, hard."
Memory
"Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort."
Literature
"You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose."
Psychology
"This is why you use imagery when writing about sex, it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion."
Art
"Knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances."
Time
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