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| e2d20ea | Does a man's existence change in any way when he removes his overcoat? Neither does it change when death removes the overcoat of his body. He's still the same person. No wiser. No happier. No better off. Exactly the same. "Death is merely continuation at another level." | Richard Matheson | ||
| 14d72b8 | People on earth are never alone," he explained. "There's always someone as a guide for each individual." -- | Richard Matheson | ||
| 0d12881 | No sabia cuanto tiempo habia pasado alli. Al fin, penso, aun el dolor mas profundo se aplaca, la desesperacion mas intensa se desvanece. La maldicion del verdugo: la victima se acostumbra al latigo. | Richard Matheson | ||
| 4e323ae | When matter is put aside, all creation becomes exclusively mental, that's all. | Richard Matheson | ||
| a1737cc | She knew the truth of men and women and booze: it rarely ended well for either gender, but it was the women who wound up raped. | Chris Bohjalian | ||
| 94bb6b8 | She was thinner than she had been. The thing ate only sparingly. Enough to keep Kasia alive, not enough to keep me from watching her wear away, her body growing gaunt and her face hollow-cheeked. | inspirational thoughtful | Naomi Novik | |
| d2409ad | You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I" | Naomi Novik | ||
| 18b3c28 | All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to believe in this one, I think you will find it nearer truth than otherwise. | Naomi Novik | ||
| e2ad0fb | I hated him and his silence ferociously: I knew he was only letting me convince myself there was nothing to be done. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 717f144 | Proper circus you make,' Berkley said, with a snort of laughter Laurence considered unnecessary, when they landed in the clearing and set the dog down; it promptly went tearing around the parade ground yelling at the dragons. For their part they were only interested and curious until the dog bit a too-inquisitive Dulcia on the tender nip of her muzzle, at which she hissed in anger; the dog yelped and fled back to the dubious shelter of Teme.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| adc76cb | It seems perfectly plain to me that it is war itself which must be halted, without wanting one side or another defeated in particular. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 782c5cd | Well, I don't know, yet," the dragonet said, "but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 0f96643 | You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me." | Naomi Novik | ||
| 440caa6 | She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all. | moments | Naomi Novik | |
| 64a4bbd | All those stories must have ended this same way, with someone tired going home from a field full of death, but no one ever sang this part. Borys | Naomi Novik | ||
| da17268 | Those the walkers carried into the Wood were less lucky. We didn't know what happened to them, but they came back out sometimes, corrupted in the worst way: smiling and cheerful, unharmed. They seemed almost themselves to anyone who didn't know them well, and you might spend half a day talking with one of them and never realize anything was wrong, until you found yourself taking up a knife and cutting off your own hand, putting out your own.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 1246393 | I don't like to be coarse, but if I did, I would be! -Granby commenting on something Rankin has said. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 3a5c5cd | After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?" | Naomi Novik | ||
| 4e5bb59 | Angry, I think. I didn't remember ever being angry before. Anger had always seemed pointless to me, a dog circling after its own tail. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 26c750a | I knew myself for the first time in a week, standing on earth instead of polished marble. | earth identity naomi-novik nature-lover uprooted | Naomi Novik | |
| 332887e | He says to land," Tharkay translated, with improbable brevity; at Laurence's frowning look he added, "and he calls us a great many impolite names; do you wish them all translated?" | Naomi Novik | ||
| d59b7b9 | My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make sense of myself when I was so far from anything I knew. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 9069a8a | Temeraire:) "Can one hire a translator to say things properly?" "Yes; they are called lawyers," Tharkay said, and laughed softly to himself." | lawyers | Naomi Novik | |
| 24dcbf6 | In short, he tried to teach me as best he could, and to advise me in my blundering through my new forest, though it was foreign country to him. He did still resent my success, not from jealousy but as a matter of principle: it offended his sense of the proper order of things that my slapdash workings did work, and he scowled as much when I was doing well as when I had made some evident mistake. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 2b169cc | Fire wouldn't burn he; blade wouldn't cut her, no matter how long we hacked away. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 6b2111b | Don't stand there like a cretin," he said. "Take it." | Naomi Novik | ||
| f09635d | I have been speaking with Dyhern a great deal on the subject of dueling," Temeraire said, "and it seems plain to me that something must be done. You must give me your word, Laurence, that if anyone ever should insult you again, they must be told at once that I will insist on being your second myself. I am very much indebted to Mr. Hammond for having killed that wretched fellow, but in future, if anyone likes to prove they are not a coward b.. | Naomi Novik | ||
| 933629d | it is the awareness that is of primary importance, no matter what the objects are that we are paying attention to. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 6cd3d98 | If we are to grasp the reality of our life while we have it, we will need to wake up to our moments. Otherwise, whole days, even a whole life, could slip past unnoticed. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| c456ffd | Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing--or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 346d54c | You Can't Stop the Waves but You Can Learn to Surf | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 4e01e37 | As much as I can, I avoid using the word "spiritual" altogether. I find it neither useful nor necessary nor appropriate in my work at the hospital bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and healthcare, nor in other settings in which we work[.] [T]o my mind, the vocabulary of spirituality creates more practical problems than it solves. [...] The concept of spirituality can narrow our thinking rather extend it. [...] Perhaps ult.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 735ab4e | Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ae0f1f6 | I]t is useful at times to admit to yourself that you don't know your way and to be open to help from unexpected places. Doing that makes available to you inner and outer energies and allies that arise out of your own soulfulness and selflessness. [...] [G]etting caught up in the normal human tendencies of self-cherishing and arrogance, and ignoring the larger order of things, will ultimately lead to ans impasse in your life in which you are.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 9ef31ee | Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to being present. There is no "performance." There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else. We are not even running after special insights or visions. Nor are we forcing ourselves to be non-judgmental, calm, or relaxed. And we are certainly not promoting self-consciousness or indulging in self-preoccupation. Rather, we are simply inviting oursel.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 34a8b48 | Allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. [...] Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the while cultivating moment-to-moment awareness, riding the waves of "up" and "down," "good" and "bad," weak" and "strong," until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful." | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| d59730a | So when we make contact with the domain of being in the meditation practice, we are already, in a profound sense, beyond the scarring, beyond the isolation and fragmentation and suffering we may be experiencing. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| dec369b | The mind states of liking and disliking can take up permanent residency in us, unconsciously feeding addictive behaviors in all domains of life. When we are able to recognize and name the seeds of greediness or craving, however subtle, in the mind's constant wanting and pursuing of the things or results that we like, and the seeds of aversion or hatred in our rejecting or maneuvering to avoid the things we don't like, that stops us for a mo.. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 292cf37 | Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable and highly respected Vietnamese meditation teacher, poet, and peace activist, uses the image of cloudy apple juice settling in a glass to describe meditation. You just sit with whatever is present, even discomfort, anxiety, or confusion, with whatever is present, and the mind settles all by itself. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| dadf1e6 | When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| a2a6f2e | The word discipline comes from disciple, someone who is in a position to learn. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| 49274a2 | research is showing that we can change our attitude, and thereby our relationship to our circumstances, in ways that can make a difference in our health and well-being, and possibly to our longevity. | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
| ff4b55e | Experiment with giving away this energy--in little ways at first--directing it toward yourself and toward others with no thought of gain or return. Give more than you think you can, trusting that you are richer than you think. Celebrate this richness. Give as if you had inexhaustible wealth. This is called "kingly giving." | giving mindfulness | Jon Kabat-Zinn | |
| b5498c3 | The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different. | presence present-moment | Jon Kabat-Zinn |