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«We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Buddhism,
Meditation,
Zen
| Keywords:
aiming, almost all, arrive, arrived, arrive at, composition, dance floor, fastest, floor, immediate, meditation, obviously, players, The Discovery, unlike
«The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| Keywords:
almost all, comprise, comprises, comprising, founded, membership, nation state, The United Nations, United Nations
«The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
almost all, contention, contentions, egos, fascinating, promotion, stealing, tawdriest, tawdry, vociferous
«To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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acquire, almost all, construct, miseries, refuge
«We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed»
«Praise is so pleasing to the mind of man that it is the original of almost all of our actions»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Action,
Mind,
Praise
| Keywords:
almost all, pleasing
«No mind is much employed upon the present: recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
almost all, anticipation, employed, fill up, recollection
«The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
almost all, assertions, contradicted, extremes, modern, pushed, reserve, strip, The Fear
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