"Mindfulness of the body is awareness of... the taste and smell of this moment."

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Source : Steve Hagen (2011). “Buddhism Plain and Simple”, p.112, Tuttle Publishing

Steve Hagen

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“All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.”
“Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.”
“I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.”
“It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.”

Source : "Flickr takes flak for selling Creative Commons photos as wall-art prints" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 02, 2014.
“Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.”

Source : Ingmar Bergman (1956). “The seventh seal: a film”
“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
“The worst waste of breath, next to playing a saxophone, is advising a son”
“A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.”

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