"The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment."

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Source : Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child (2010). “The Wheel of Darkness: An Agent Pendergast Novel”, p.124, Hachette UK

Douglas Preston

#Heart Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me”
“I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.”
“Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.”
“There was no smell. Over the years time other than when it rained, the musty odour was present. People were in and out of that house daily for years. And other than when it rained, there was no odour and certainly not like what some of the books said. That's all fantasy. If that odour was there somebody would have noticed it sooner.”
“Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.”

Source : Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.
“A man is so in the way in the house.”
“My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.”
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”

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