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"When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things. I just want to get at it slowly, but carefully and thoroughly, with the same attitude I remember was present just before I found that sheared pin. It was that attitude that found it, nothing else."
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"Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity."
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"I have no time to look back. My heart is dancing in the present moment feeling the joy of life."
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"Be captivated by your hearts desire, not distracted by your minds fear."
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"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."
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"The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath."
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"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."
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"Be control of your mind."
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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
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"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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"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."
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"Can I have a motorcycle when I get old enough?'If you take care of it.'What do you have to do?'Lot's of things. You've been watching me.'Will you show me all of them?'Sure.'Is it hard?'Not if you have the right attitudes. It's having the right attitudes that's hard.'Oh.'After a while I see he is sitting down again. Then he says, 'Dad?'What?'Will I have the right attitudes?'I think so,' I say. 'I don't think that will be any problem at all."
Guidance
"People spend their entire lives at those lower altitudes without any awareness that this high country exists."
Awareness
"Even in the presence of others he was completely alone."
Loneliness
"There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere."
Enlightenment
"The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University."
Education
"We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly."
Philosophy
"Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity."
Creativity
"He comments on how amazing it is that everything in the universe can be described by the twenty-six written characters with which they have been working."
Language
"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is. And when you presume there's just one right way to do things, of course the instructions begin and end exclusively with the rotisserie. But if you have to choose among an infinite number of ways to put it together then the relation of the machine to you, and the relation of the machine and you to the rest of the world, has to be considered, because the selection from many choices, the art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That's why you need the peace of mind."
Technology
"When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process."
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