"When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151)"

-- Swami Satchidananda

#Practice Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Alaska itself is an unusual state.”
“In war, is it who's right or who's left?”
“I question why the Department continued to watch the costs escalate without informing Parliament and without considering alternatives.”

Source : "Ottawa hid huge costs of gun plan, audit finds". www.theglobeandmail.com. December 4, 2002.
“It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable. . . . He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor. . . . No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate.”
“Telephone handsets are particularly in need of built-in security. We have almost every aspect of our personal and work lives reflected on them and we lose them all the time. We leave them in taxis. We leave them on airplanes. The consequences of one of these devices falling into the wrong hands are very, very serious.”
“Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff...”
“How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?”
“The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.”

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