"When the mind is totally present, it is relaxed, nimble, and sensitive. It feels lighter and clearer. It notices everything, but it is not distracted by anything. It is the feeling of knowing exactly where you are and what you are doing."

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Source : Sakyong Mipham (2012). “Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind”, p.152, Harmony

Sakyong Mipham

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“There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.”
“To age with dignity and with courage cuts close to what it is to be a man.”

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“Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.”
“I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.”
“A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.”
“People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others...”
“No matter where you're going it's the wrong place”
“While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.”

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