All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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Alain Badiou
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind–As if my Brain had split– I tried to match it– Seam by Seam–But could not make it fit.
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Emily Dickinson
Open wide the mind's cage-door, She'll dart forth, and cloudward soar.
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John Keats
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
If we read the Scriptures, we shall renewed our mind.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Matthieu Ricard
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
According to the philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville: The wise man has nothing left to expect or to hope for. Because he is entirely happy, he needs nothing. Because he needs nothing, he is entirely happy.
Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.
Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanaced and truly compassionate human being?
Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanced and truly compassionate human being?
