"meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind."

-- Thrangu Rinpoche

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“every issue that we deal with in this country has a moral component to it. And so, to divorce a moral component to the debt burden we're leaving the next generation, the tax structure to how we spend our money in Washington, and how we - you know, how we value human life - I mean, all of those things, to me interrelate. They're not - they're not separate issues.”
“Tis visible silence, still as the hour-glass.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
“I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.”

Source : "Carrie Ann Inaba Picks Her Ultimate DWTS Contestant, and Admits: 'I've Thrown Up Before Every Show'" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2012.
“We donâ€™t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.”
“In my early twenties the nature of conservatism itself changed. When I identified as a fourteen-year-old conservative, it was closer to what we today think of as libertarianism - conservatism, at least for me, had been defined by Jeffersonian credos like "the best governed are the least governed" and "I have sworn eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" that were very idealistic and romantic to a kid.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”
“As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.”
“There are many people inside Iran who say, "We don't have enough to eat. Why do we need a nuclear bomb?"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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