Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal
God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.
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Amit Ray
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware– not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.
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Sharon Salzberg
A sure success is the grace to mediate on the scriptures.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.
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Sharon Salzberg
More Quotes By John Berger
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a totally different light on his life and of which all the...
My heart born nakedwas swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it worepoems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my backthe poetry I had read. So I lived for half a centuryuntil wordlessly we met. From my shirt on the back of the chair I...
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything...
