"The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns."

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Source : James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.9, MIT Press

James H. Austin

#Work Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Sitting Quotes

“America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.”
“Sometimes people can get shitty, but you won't last in music industry by taking things personally.”
“Good composers don't borrow, they steal”
“When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.”
“Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abbaâ€™s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ”
“I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had â€œbecome a lesbianâ€â€”but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poetâ€”and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.”

Source : "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.
“We see a decline of civility, and, sadly, itâ€™s often modeled by the very people from whom we have the least right to expect it.”
“He was addicted to me and now he has gone cold turkey. He used to send me fifty texts a day. And now he is ignoring me. It's like I was once his Barack Obama. And now I am John McCain, conceding defeat like a sad-face sock puppet, knowing I have sold the best of myself. He, my electorate, not only does not want me, he actively feels pity.”

Source : Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.158, A&C Black

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