Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say “Come back” and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup. Eknath Easwaran
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
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Amit Ray
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
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Roy T. Bennett
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
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Marcus Aurelius
In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go
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Jack Kornfield
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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Henry James
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Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
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You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the woods, or go to India and wander about on the slopes of the Himalayas. But only through daily contact with people--not trees or brooks or deer--can we train ourselves...
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As long as we lean on anything outside ourselves for support, we are going to be insecure. Most of us try to find support by leaning on all sorts of things - gold, books, learning, sensory stimulation - and if these things are taken away,...
