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If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel a tremendous sense of relaxation, a vast sense of openness within your mind - which is in fact your natural mind, the naturally unperturbed background against which various thoughts come and go.
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Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.
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Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!
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I would give my best quartet for a good razor,
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Successful adult relationships, whether between lovers or friends, require a significant degree of vulnerability, trust, and openness-
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The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
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Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.
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You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.
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I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.
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The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.
