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"Your greatest strength is in your ability to remain still."
"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."
"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."
"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."
"It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away."
"It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years."
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"I'm likely to stay here, pen in hand, until dusk comes and my writing melts into the twilight."
"In with the new, out with the old.' That's what we're told. We have to change, adapt, compromise."
"Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing."
"When sitting down to write a letter, it always pays to calm one's mood, collect one's thoughts, and have a plan."
"It's ironic that those who lack self-confidence are often the ones who find it hardest to say no."
"If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don't then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path."
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