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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1017176 | You mustn't touch me." Very slowly, he lowered his hand. "You need to be touched, Caitlin MacBride. You need it very badly." She girded herself with denial. "Even if it were so, I would not need it from an Englishman." "Think again, my love. We're easy with one another despite our differences. Remember our first meeting--the shock of it, the knowing? We could be good for each other." "And when, pray, has an Englishman ever been good for Ire.. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 7dacb13 | There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance." --William Longgood, The Queen Must Die" -- | Susan Wiggs | ||
| e8eadc6 | Did you know a child laughs an average of three hundred times a day, and an adult just three? | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 3172aca | The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea. --Isak Dinesen | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 9e19351 | Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! --Jane Austen (1798) | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 469a9f8 | They spent the day with Lucia, who promised that the following day she would take them up to Scala, an even tinier, loftier town where her parents now lived. That evening, Mac took her to a restaurant called Il Flauto di Pan- Pan's Flute- perched at the Villa Cimbrone among the gardens and crumbling walls. It was probably the most beautiful restaurant she'd ever seen. The centuries-old villa was embellished with incredible gardens of fuchsi.. | isabel-and-cormac italy restaurant villa zia-lucia | Susan Wiggs | |
| 6f38cd6 | As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 8e89bc8 | For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them. --John Banville | Susan Wiggs | ||
| 7dc7c43 | and to die with the Warrior's Prayer on his lips. For, 'Yes', he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life. Acceptance. | death | Robin Hobb | |
| 83a39fc | Estou manchado com esplendor corrupto, sou um codigo para segredos obscuros, sou um ser a parte, fui gerado na decadencia, e vivo sobre a agua. Sou o mais diferente possivel de ti, e no entanto nao sou propriamente um turco ou um peixe" Casanova" | Michelle Lovric | ||
| 718afa9 | Para crear un cosa, debes pagar con otra del mismo valor, es la ley del intercambio equivalente. Pero el mundo no es perfecto y no existe una sola ley que gobierne todo lo que sucede en el. Aun asi, sigo pensando que la gente no puede conseguir algo sin pagar algo a cambio ... La gente que se esfuerza sabe que tarde o temprano obtendra su recompensa | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 7c53c9f | Humanity's advancement is founded on looking for new possibilities instead of being bound by general principles. | Hiromu Arakawa | ||
| 0d01bbf | CHAPTER ONE A Boy at the Window FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THAT SUMMER, the four Penderwick sisters still talked of Arundel. Fate drove us there, Jane would say. No, it was the greedy landlord who sold our vacation house on Cape Cod, someone else would say, probably Skye. Who knew which was right? But it was true that the beach house they usually rented had been sold at the last minute, and the Penderwicks were suddenly without summer plans. Mr... | Jeanne Birdsall | ||
| 4f723a2 | Perhaps you need to look up and around instead of back and down. Lift your eyes and see the amazing future which bursts with hope for you in God! Don't spend your life mourning over what you have lost and what is already gone; take an inventory of what you have left and keep going, one foot in front of the other, one step of faith at a time. Remember, God is on your side! | Joyce Meyer | ||
| 89b378a | Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of an justified religious beliefs. - Sam Harris | Dan Brown | ||
| ea4d8da | Primitive agonies exist in many of us. Originating in painful experiences that occurred before we had the cognitive capacities to know what was happening, they tend to blindside us, traumatizing us again and again as we find ourselves enacting a pain we do not understand. | Mark Epstein | ||
| dda3875 | Because the media control sources of information, according to Dylan, "We live in a world of fantasy where Disney has won. . . . It's all fantasy." | Daniel Mark Epstein | ||
| c7c8bfd | Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 1911bb7 | Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship will fall apart if the partners are not respectful of each other's differences. <...> Separateness and connection make each other possible; they are not mutually exclusive. | connection couples desire differences love relationships romantic-love separateness | Mark Epstein | |
| 753e81f | Axelrod responded, "All we can do is everything we can do." | Dan Harris | ||
| 97a6479 | All I had to do was tell myself: if it doesn't work, I only need the grit to start again--just like when my mind wandered in meditation. | Dan Harris | ||
| 1e42092 | The Buddha, in recovering his capacity for nonsensual joy, learned that this joy was limitless. He found that if he got himself out of the way, his joy completely suffused his mindful awareness. This gave him the confidence, the stability, the trust, and the means to see clearly whatever presented itself to his mind. In the curious bifurcation of consciousness that meditation develops, where we can be both observer and that which is being o.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 4911c4a | What I had learned from Buddhism was that I did not have to know myself analytically as much as I had to tolerate not knowing. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 98a6d3b | Although there are occasions when it is more pronounced and awful and occasions when it is actually horrific, trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people. It is the bedrock of our biology. | Mark Epstein | ||
| d9c509e | It is always true to say when reviewing one of this patient's sessions that if she could scream she would be well," wrote Winnicott. "The great non-event of every session is screaming."6 The Burmese master who counseled Sharon was making much the same point. In encouraging her to cry her heart out, he was countering her inclination to make crying the "great non-event" of every meditation session. Like the Burmese teacher, Winnicott felt tha.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| a1ed3ac | Subliminally, the Buddha was saying, we are all tending these fires (of greed, hatred, and delusion), motivated as we are by our insecure place in the world, by the feeling, the dukkha, of not fitting in. The fires of greed, hatred, and delusion are defenses against acknowledging that everything is on fire, instinctive attempts at protecting ourselves from what feels like an impossible situation. The Buddha stressed the burning nature of th.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 54b1b3b | After five minutes, or ten, or fifteen--it doesn't matter--open your eyes and resume your day. For a moment or two things might seem more alive. | Mark Epstein | ||
| b1b393e | It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, | Mark Epstein | ||
| 9aacff5 | These feelings of rage and distress and despair that you talk about," I said, circling something I knew I would have trouble articulating. "They only exist because of your original love for your father. They are like signposts back to that love. His leaving took that love with him, or appeared to, but you will see, if you stay with your meditation, that all of that love is still there in you. From the infant's perspective, it's directed at .. | Mark Epstein | ||
| a810cd3 | He was aware of his trauma, but he was using it to distance himself from life. He had a story about himself but no access to who he might have been before his trauma derailed him. I was trying to use his feelings of deprivation as a means of bringing him back in touch with a more fundamental truth about himself, to guide him back toward--or at least help him to visualize--the intrinsic relational foundation of his being. By not fighting wit.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| eae954f | The Buddha's fifth dream evokes both the extraordinary and the ordinary nature of his achievement. He walks on a mountain of dirt and is not fouled by it. Note that the dirt is not transformed into gold or anything. It stays dirty. But the Buddha, astride his pile of dirt, is untouched by it. This is another version of the third dream, in which that which was seen as a barrier to awakening is now known as the foundation upon which it rests... | Mark Epstein | ||
| 4926046 | A friend of mine who spent years in India with a great teacher from the ancient forest tradition tells a moving story... Years after his beloved teacher had died, he was back in India staying at the home of his guru's most devoted Indian disciple. "I must show you something," the disciple said to my friend one day. "This is what he left for me." My friend was excited, of course. Any trace of his teacher was nectar to him. He watched as the .. | Epstein Mark | ||
| f6aaee1 | Simply speaking, they showed him that he could be kind. In his years of spiritual searching he had perfected all kinds of esoteric talents. He could take his mind into spheres of nothingness, go for days and weeks without eating, and rend his flesh with the best of them, but he was still operating with barely disguised contempt, not benevolence, toward himself and his world. When the enlightened Buddha told his admirer that he was awake, it.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| f3c60a0 | According to Buddhism, it is our fear at experiencing ourselves directly that creates suffering. | Mark Epstein | ||
| b0bd376 | We are afraid to venture into the unknown because to do so would remind us of how unsafe we once felt. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 20bfe9f | I do know one thing for sure: there's much more for me to do. Whether or not 100% happy is achievable, I can definitely be more than 10% happier--and I'm excited to | Dan Harris | ||
| e762935 | I felt silly to be falling into such an obvious trap of letting my expectations interfere with what was actually happening, but I also felt an all-too-familiar sadness creeping up from my chest to my eyes. In the stillness of the retreat I saw how I did this a lot: envisioning how something, or someone, had to be perfect, and then being disappointed when they failed, pulling myself back into a sullen remove. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 5c1e594 | Joseph made clear, it is not just the mother that has to be released from perfection. It is everything. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 451d759 | Meditation, as taught by the Buddha, is a means of investigating the mind by bringing the entire range of thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations into awareness. This not only makes what we would today call "the unconscious" conscious but also makes the conscious more conscious. There were already various forms of meditation widely practiced in the Buddha's day, but they were all techniques that solely emphasized concentration. The Budd.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 0f9de9d | For the supersophisticated, he would often say there is neither self nor nonself and then further confuse them by saying that if they took that too seriously they would be wrong too. His efforts were always in the service of releasing people from their fixed ideas about who or what they were, about freeing them from attachment to whatever concept they were clinging to, about loosening the hold that the fear-based ego claimed as its birthrig.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 73382bb | Separate and together cease to be mutually exclusive and instead become, in psychoanalyst Christopher Bolla's phrase, "reciprocally enhancing and mutually informative." | Mark Epstein | ||
| a1ff470 | When I taught the meditation on sound to the participants at my weekend workshop and had people open to the ringing of their cell phones, I was trying to introduce them to his method. By listening meditatively, we were changing the way we listen, pulling ourselves out of our usual orientation to the world based on our likes and dislikes. Rather than trying to figure out what was going on around us, resisting the unpleasant noises and gravit.. | Mark Epstein | ||
| 596e2fb | The koans in the Blue Cliff Record do their best to introduce people to their true natures. One of them (number 27 out of 100) quotes a monk asking the master Yun Men, "How is it when the tree withers and the leaves fall?" There are many ways to interpret the question, of course." | Mark Epstein | ||
| 74b77bc | In mindfulness meditation, the self that needs protection is put into neutral. The observing self slips into the space between the ego and the dissociated aspects of the personality and observes from there. The breath, or sound, becomes the central object of focus, as opposed to thought. Thinking becomes one more thing to observe in the field of awareness but is robbed of its preeminent position. Do not grasp after the pleasant or push away.. | Mark Epstein |