The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

Peter Matthiessen
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  2. Evil is something you need to fight until it ceases trying to control you. - Janvier ChouteuChando

  3. Love has no color, love has no language and love has no religion. - Janvier ChouteuChando

  4. …blissfulness is the summit of contentment… - Janvier ChouteuChando

  5. Not every good idea is God's perfect will for you; it may need discerning, wisdom and experience to tell the difference. - Anonymous

More Quotes By Peter Matthiessen
  1. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  2. I love you, even if there isn’t any me, or any love, or even any life. I love you.

  3. I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

  4. And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

  5. .. . she tried to weave the strength of her father and the young beauty of her first love with David, the happy oblivion of her teens and her warm protected childhood into a magic cloak.

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