"There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential-and then you can exhale."

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Source : "The Balance Between Contemplation and Action". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.eomega.org. November 5, 2012.

Joan Halifax

#Essentials Quotes #Feels Quotes

“When you go to clubs in London there are loads of good-looking blokes, and I feel like a bit of a minger”
“If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.”
“Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.”
“No matter how perfect is physical beauty of a girl, if she could trample and not to appreciate the love, she doesn't worth of being loved.”
“My goal is to leave the producer with so many good takes, that he or she has a tough time deciding on the best one.”
“When one person dies, it's a tragedy, but when a million people die, it's a statistic.”
“we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.”
“Attention is the most powerful tool of the human spirit. We can enhance or augment our attention with practices like meditation and exercise, diffuse it with technologies like email and Blackberries, or alter it with pharmaceuticals. In the end, though, we are fully responsible for how we choose to use this extraordinary tool.”

Source : "Fine Dining with Mobile Devices" by Linda Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2008.

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