"My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey."

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Source : "Beryl Bender Birch: Abhyasa and Avoiding Flying Tomatoes". Interview with Andrea Marcum, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Beryl Bender Birch

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“Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.”

Source : P.T. Barnum (2016). “The Art of Money Getting”, p.27, BookRix
“Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.”
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
“When will the men do something besides extend congratulations? I would rather have President Roosevelt say one word to Congress infavor of amending the Constitution to give women the suffrage than to praise me endlessly!”
“No strict schedule, but I write nearly daily in my journal. Sometimes I go back and pull out things to give to my characters and my settings in books that I write. But the books themselves are not scheduled. I work on a book when it comes to me, usually about one a year. I spend a lot of time working on it in my head. But getting it published is another matter. So, I have a lot of unpublished manuscripts.”
“I could look at you forever and never see the two of us together”
“In a relationship, it is better to be the leaver than the leavee.”
“Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.”

Source : Calvin S. Hall (1979). “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”

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