"Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to one conscious area of operation. The results are those you find in any concentrative practice: deep calm, a physiological slowing of the metabolism and a sense of peace and wellbeing"

-- Henepola Gunaratana

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“Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.”
“Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.”

Source : Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.96, Kensington Publishing Corp.
“I guess it's interesting traveling, for me, because I never in my life until doing this felt a sense of being from anywhere particularly, whereas now I do feel quite European. Even if we don't get up to England, if we're in France or somewhere like that, it feels more like going back somewhere familiar - more than even America, where we share a lot of cultural stuff.”
“The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.”
“Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.”
“When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring and saturating it...then a glass will be filled and poured back into the mixture, blending it further. The comes waiting. Motionless waiting. Finally, from high up, like some green cataract whose sight and sound mesmerize, the tea will once again cascade into a glass. Now it can be drunk, dreamily, forehead bowed, fingers held wide away from the scalding glass.”
“I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.”
“No his mind is not for rent, to any god or government. Always hopeful yet discontent, he knows changes aren't permanent. But change is.”

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