"When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice."

-- Jack Kornfield

#Letting Go Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Heart Quotes

“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
“All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'”
“I think what you canâ€™t see is always what you should be frightened of.”
“We will destroy laughing, we will set fires laughing, we will kill laughing... and society will fall!!”
“It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.”

Source : Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.183, Courier Corporation
“We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.”
“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.”

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