"As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place."

-- Martine Batchelor

#Emotional Quotes #Space Quotes #Long Quotes

“I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.”
“If you can think about it, you can create it.”
“The only people who are truly happy are the people we do not know very well.”
“As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.”
“Baseball is not a grind for me.”
“The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.”

Source : Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books
“Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.”
“The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and final portions; the pain of this constant ambivalence and interrelation of emotions; the hunger for frontiers against which we might learn as upon closed doors before we proceed forward; the struggle against diffusion, new beginnings, against finality in acts without finality or end, in our cursedly repercussive being..”

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