"So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray."

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Mary Oliver

#Judging Quotes #Swim Quotes #Flow Quotes

“When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.”
“If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.”
“Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.”
“Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.”

Source : Swami Rama (1977). “Freedom from the Bondage of Karma”, p.73, Himalayan Institute Press
“In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.”
“Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.”

Source : Hugh Kingsmill (1944). “The Poisoned Crown”
“I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.”
“More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.”

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