"Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood."

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Source : Vidagama Maitreya, Mahasi Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla, Nyanaponika Thera, Ria Kloppenborg (2013). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311”, p.76, Buddhist Publication Society

Mahasi Sayadaw

#Mean Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Woods Quotes

“When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.”
“I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.”

Source : Source: itcouldbemainstream.blogspot.com
“If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.”
“You look closely enough, you'll find that everything has a weak spot where it can break, sooner or later.”
“It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.”

Source : Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford (2014). “The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”, p.150, IT Revolution
“The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while carried by the universal forces of life. Only then does one not think about making art, or about styles, or directions. Something comes about, something happens.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, 1990.
“Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
“If I could have gave more, I would have done it. I gave everything I had”

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