"To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Meditation Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Insight Quotes

“I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord intended us to function, if we had paid our tithes and our offerings as the Lord intended us to pay them, we might have gone on without one dollar from our federal government. And has it ever occurred to you what a mighty influence we should have exercised for good and for respect and for all of the virtues that we have been taught, and that God has commanded us to exercise and cultivate and practice, if we had just followed along what he has asked us to do?”
“Your brother doesn't have to be speaker for your voice to be heard in Congress”
“I train for the first shot – it’s all I need.”

Source : Geoff Thompson (2009). “Watch My Back”, p.9, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW
“In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.”
“I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.”
“Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.”
“Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.97, Library of Alexandria
“I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest Value comes from loving yourself for who you are.”

Source : "Samantha tells of secret stroke" by Vanessa Thorpe and Andy Capper, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2008.

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