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«What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan»
Author: Hakuin
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Meditation
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Action The, coughing, koan, meditation, right and wrong, stillness, what is this
«You and I can turn and lookat the silent river and wait. We knowthe current is there, hidden; and thereare comings and goings from miles awaythat hold the stillness exactly before us.What the river says, that is what I say.»
Author: William Stafford
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comings, current, goings, river, stillness, The Current, The River, turning away
«They are the proof of something was there and no longer is.Like a stain. And the stillness of them is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they'll still be there looking at you.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
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Photography
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back away, come back, looking at, proof, stain, stains, stillness, turning away, turn away
«Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
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breeding, features, steadiness, stillness
«O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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beyond control, comprehension, control it, describe, Krishna, restless, stillness, tame, tamer, turbulent
«Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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cutting, cutting off, intensely, mystic, mystics, obstacle, passively, stillness, The Hunger, thirst, uncontrolled
«One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be mere rushing on.»
«There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Existence
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contradictions, finite, Meeting Point, movement, mystery, stillness, united
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