Back when he had first come to the monastery, they had given him a very simple ritual called Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day and dismissing the day’s pains as a thing that were past while choosing to remember as gains lessons learned or moments of insight. As initiates grew in the ways of Sa, it was expected they would grow more sophisticated in this exercise, learning to balance the day, taking responsibility for their own actions and learning from them without indulging in either guilt or regrets."p. 240. Robin Hobb
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  2. Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form. - Anonymous

  3. Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to. - Matt Padwick

  4. I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  5. Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. - Anonymous

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  2. That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

  3. The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are...

  4. When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

  5. That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.

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