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.
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I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose read more
I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.
Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
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.
