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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the read more
When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not read more
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow--
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am read more
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of read more
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
