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S. N. Goenka

"It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile."

Source : S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing

S. N. Goenka

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“I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law”
“If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide.”
“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.”

Source : "Werner Herzog Is Ready for the End of the World". Interview with Sam Fragoso, newrepublic.com. January 29, 2016.
“We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for this reason that anthropologists have not shown much interest in these models, unlike economists, for example, for whom the use of mathematics poses no problem. However, one could reach the same conclusions by using just a bit of common sense.”
“Design is where science and art break even.”
“Itâ€™s foolish to fear what weâ€™ve yet to see and know.”
“I believe that the best way to create good living conditions for any animal, whether it's a captive animal living in a zoo, a farm animal or a pet, is to base animal welfare programs on the core emotion systems in the brain. My theory is that the environment animals live in should activate their positive emotions as much as possible, and not activate their negative emotions any more than necessary. If we get the animal's emotions rights, we will have fewer problem behaviors... All animals and people have the same core emotion systems in the brain.”

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