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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Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
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.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some read more
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
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.
It's the things I might have said that fester.
It's the things I might have said that fester.
The peace makers shall be called the children of God.
The peace makers shall be called the children of God.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.
Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened.
