"In meditation, it is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to become devoid of all mental thoughts, so what we want to do is fill the mind with those thoughts that induce positive feelings of peace, relaxation or happiness."

-- Tim McCarthy

#People Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.”
“Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.”
“I don't think I'll take the medal as the minute and a half of the race I actually won. I'll take it as the last decade of the hard slog I put in.”

Source : "The Joy of Six: the Winter Olympics" by Russell Jackson, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2014.
“When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.”
“We are searching for the same thing,â€ Stripey said. â€œHow do you know?â€ Janco asked. â€œI read his mind.â€ The Sitian pointed to Ari. â€œYours was tooâ€¦chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.â€ A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.”
“To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.”
“I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.”
“Rather than make claims of final theories, perhaps we should focus on our ever-continuing dialogue with the universe. It is the dialogue that matters most, not its imagined end. It is the sacred act of inquiry wherein we gently trace the experienced outlines of an ever-greater whole. It is the dialogue that lets the brilliance of the diamondâ€™s infinite facets shine clearly. It is the dialogue that instills within us a power and capacity that is, and always has been, saturated with meaning.”

Source : Adam Frank (2011). “About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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