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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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not read more
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
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.
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is read more
In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
