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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| da7953a | don't get distracted by your expectations about the results. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| ac84c93 | The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| cc67a8a | Don't dwell upon contrasts. Differences do exist between people, but dwelling upon them is a dangerous process. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| c09ce31 | comparisons, if any, lead to feelings of kinship rather than of estrangement. Breathing | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| b5a2cbb | You can learn to perceive your life as an ever- flowing movement, a thing of great beauty like a dance or symphony. You can learn to take joy in the perpetual passing away of all phenomena. You can learn to live with the flow of existence rather than running perpetually against the grain. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 4f20900 | Seeing with wisdom means seeing things within the framework of our body/mind complex without prejudices or biases springing from our greed, hatred and delusion. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| f80ab0e | As your mindfulness develops, your resentment of change, your dislike of unpleasant experiences, your greed for pleasant experiences and the notion of self hood will be replaced by the deeper insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness. This knowledge of reality in your experience helps you to foster a more calm, peaceful and mature attitude towards your life. You will see what you thought in the past to be permanent is c.. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 157be5a | Here we see how even a small degree of desire for permanency in an impermanent situation causes pain or unhappiness. Since there is no self-entity to control this situation, we will become more disappointed. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 8b0b3b5 | Mindfulness reminds the mediator to apply his attention to the proper object at the proper time and to exert precisely the amount of energy needed to do the job. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 587f8c6 | Concentration is the lens. It produces the burning intensity necessary to see into the deeper reaches of the mind. Mindfulness selects the object hat the lens will focus on and looks through the lens to see what is there. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 75bf43a | Mindfulness is a broader and larger function than concentration. it is an all-encompassing function. Concentration is exclusive. It settles down on one item and ignores everything else. Mindfulness is inclusive. It stands back from the focus of attention and watches with a broad focus, quick to notice any change that occurs. If you have focused the mind on a stone, concentration will see only the stone. Mindfulness stands back from this pro.. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| defea79 | Too much awareness without calm to balance it will result in a wildly over-sensitized state similar to abusing LSD. Too much concentration without a balancing ratio of awareness will result in the 'Stone Buddha' syndrome. The meditator gets so tranquilized that he sits there like a rock. Both of these are to be avoided. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 5f792b2 | If you find your mind extremely active, then simply observe the nature and degree of that activity. It is just a part of the passing show within. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| efe6f00 | Resting comfortably in awareness, we relax into things as they are right now in this very moment, without slipping away into what happened in the past or will happen in the future. Normally, because we do not understand, we tend to blame the world for our pain and suffering. But with sati, mindful remembering, we understand that the only place to find peace and freedom from suffering is this very place, right here in our own body and mind. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 7a3cbcc | The roots of suffering are within us. And the method for eliminating suffering is within us as well. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 7bc678a | This goal has five elements to it: purification of mind, overcoming sorrow and lamentation, overcoming pain and grief, treading the right path leading to attainment of eternal peace, and attaining happiness by following that path. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 99aa049 | Below the threshold of conscious awareness, ignorance infiltrates our perceptions, and from there spreads to our thoughts and views, resulting in distorted modes of understanding | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 259b556 | Always remember: becoming mindful of losing our mindfulness is mindfulness. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| a1925b9 | When we focus on the breath, we become mindful of the universal nature of all beings. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 7ab278c | All you should notice in all these occurrences is the impermanent, unsatisfactory, and selfless nature of all your experiences whether mental or physical. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| a6a5b8e | Meditation on the breath is not a breathing exercise. We are simply using the breath as a point of focus to cultivate mindfulness. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 42e7c66 | We categorize experiences. We try to stick each perception, every mental change in this endless flow, into one of three mental pigeon holes: it is good, bad, or neutral. Then, according to which box we stick it in, we perceive with a set of fixed habitual mental responses. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| e71a697 | What you are now is the result of what you were. What you will be tomorrow will be the result of what you are now. The consequences of an evil mind will follow you like the cart follows the ox that pulls it. The consequences of a purified mind will follow you like your own shadow. No one can do more for you than your own purified mind -- no parent, no relative, no friend, no one. A well-disciplined mind brings happiness. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| eb4691d | We inhale and experience pleasure and then tension. We exhale and experience release but also anxiety. But even this pattern has much to teach us. When we experience tension, we remind ourselves not to be disappointed. When we experience pleasure, we remember not to attach to it. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 4a60f70 | Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 5b8d134 | When you finally overcome the five hindrances, you experience a great relief. This relief slowly increases until it culminates in piti, joy. This joy is purely internal. It does not arise dependent on worldly or household pleasure. Nothing outside you causes it. It arises through renouncing outward pleasure. | Henepola Gunaratana | ||
| 8c8edb9 | Girl, you could use those gift cards! | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0fb58c6 | Are you hungry?" Grandma asked me. "Do you need breakfast?" "I'm famished!" -- | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 5db9024 | Say what? There's no 'and he got naked and waved his magic wand?' 'Nope,' Connie said. 'No magic wand. She didn't get to see the wand.' 'Well, you know he got one,' Lula said. 'How come he didn't wave it and make her a happy princess? | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 34b9046 | I introduced myself and told him I was looking for his dad. 'Haven't seen him,' he said. 'We aren't close. He's an even bigger dick than me. I mean, dude, he named me Oswald. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 610f385 | You could always count on melted cheese to have a calming effect. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 35ccd9b | I carted the basket into my bedroom, set it on the floor, and my cell phone rang. 'Bitch,' Joyce Barnhardt said when I answered. 'Do you have a problem?' 'You poisoned me.' 'I don't know what you're talking about.' 'Don't play dumb. You knew exactly what you were doing when you forced that pork on me.' 'Gee, I'd really like to talk to you, Joyce, but I have to go do something.' 'I'll get you for this. As soon as I can leave the bathroom. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 512e2cc | Okay, but who knows what happens at night? They could come alive like the zombies." I turned the corner and drove to my parents' house. "You need cake." "Hell, yeah." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 4305f94 | I sent Hal and Rafael to keep an eye on you, and I went to check on a commercial account in Whitehorse. Rafael called to tell me Lula went in with a rocket launcher, so I skipped Whitehorse. I pulled into the lot seconds before you destroyed Billings Foods. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 828bd86 | She's a silly old lady,' my mother said. 'You could be a good Christian and turn the other cheek.' 'I'm a plenty good Christian,' Grandma said, 'but I got it on good authority that God wants me to get Bella for Him. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| b71cb0c | I'm going to get her good. She's messed with me one time too many. Remember when she called me an old slut?' Grandma whacked a carrot in half. 'Well, I'm not all that old. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1069d02 | Stand back. I'm going to give the eye.' Grandma pulled a .45 long barrel out of her black patent leather purse and pointed it at Bella. 'You put your finger to your eye and I'll put a hole in your head that's so big you could push a potato through it. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 0148950 | You do understand that your life isn't normal, right?' 'Barrel was texting and he stepped off the curb without looking,' I said. 'But you were here,' Morelli said. 'How does it happen that you're always in the precise spot when disaster strikes? Your car's been blown up how many times? And it's never your fault. Remember when you fell off a fire escape into dog diarrhea? And the time you dated a serial killer?' 'I liked that serial killer,'.. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 346cb8d | You don't mind if I take a picture of this guy with my cell phone, do you? I need to prove he's dead.' 'Knock yourself out,' Morelli said. 'Last time an FTA of yours went dead you asked the EMTs to drive him to the courthouse.' 'There's a lot of paperwork when the FTA is dead,' I said. 'It's easier when you can have him show up in court. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 2efdc4f | the ancient Greeks thought there were four kinds of love. Storge, or familial love. Philia, or friendship. Eros, or romantic love, and agape, or unconditional love. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 1b248d0 | Lucille has me going to Sex Addicts Anonymous.' 'How's that working for you?' Lula asked. 'It's a nightmare. I go there, and I'm in a room filled with perverts. It's like being in a bakery where everything is free and you can't eat anything. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| ada1203 | I'm only getting one doughnut," Lula said, getting out of the Firebird. "I'm on a new diet where I only have one of anything. Like I can have one pea. And I can have one piece of asparagus. And I can have one loaf of bread." | Janet Evanovich | ||
| 28a1a58 | You would let nine million dollars sit under this concrete?' 'Yeah.' He toed the concrete. 'I like my floor. The guys did a good job on it. It's nice and smooth.' 'If we got married and you died, I'd have this floor up before your body got cold.' 'As long as you don't slit my throat while I'm sleeping.' He looked down at me. 'You wouldn't, would you?' 'Not for money. | Janet Evanovich | ||
| cb4a3fd | He exposed himself,' I said. 'Men aren't supposed to go around exposing themselves at unsuspecting women.' 'Well, technically none of us was unsuspecting,' Grandma said. 'We wait for him to show up. I guess it's one of them generation things. You get to an age and you look forward to seeing a winkie at four in the afternoon when you're peeling potatoes for supper. | Janet Evanovich |