"The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life."

-- Peter Matthiessen

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“I’d compare stock pickers to astrologers but I don’t want to bad mouth astrologers.”
“Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how 13+14 yield 27.”
“Itâ€™s called mind over matter. If we donâ€™t mind, it doesnâ€™t matter.â€ When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.”
“The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.”
“Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.”

Source : Don Cattaneo Marabotto, St. Catherine of Genoa (2015). “The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa”, p.208, TAN Books
“Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.”
“Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.”
“If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

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