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Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.


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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.



A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.



When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.



Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.



Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.



Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.



When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.



When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.



The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.



Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.





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I am of the opinion that a tantric lifestyle can not only build successful individuals, but it has the potential to shape successful yet harmonious communities and even business enterprises.

I am of the opinion that a tantric lifestyle can not only build successful individuals, but it has the potential to shape successful yet harmonious communities and even business enterprises.



Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.



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Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.



When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.



United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.



It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always matters who wins.

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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

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