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«What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan»
Author: Hakuin
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Meditation
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Action The, coughing, koan, meditation, right and wrong, stillness, what is this
«The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion»
Author: Henry George
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Law and lawyers
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Action The, exertion, fundamental law, Fundamental Laws, fundamental principle, gratify, gravitation, human action, Laws of physics, law of gravitation, physics, political economy
«The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
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Action The, examines, human action, impressed, limitations, motives, springs, unconscious
«What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
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Action The, distinguishes, earlier
«The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.»
«Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it»
«War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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War
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Action The, educates, measures, perfects
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