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Sylvia Boorstein

"I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut."

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

Sylvia Boorstein

#Thinking Quotes #Wind Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.”
“No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.”
“I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.”
“Stand by your bed and salute me.”
“Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1893). “The Science of Mechanics: A Critical and Historical Exposition of Its Principles”
“I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.”
“I know in my heart the dream will be realized. I choose to believe. And choosing is a powerful thing. It's available to you at every moment. You can choose understanding over anger, believing over nonbelieving, action over inaction. It gives meaning to every choice we make.”
“I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.”

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