“To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.”
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8 quotes“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Robert M. Pirsig
5 quotes“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
Osho
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4 quotes“In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.”
Sam Harris
3 quotes“Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering”
Louis L'Amour
3 quotes“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
Wayne W. Dyer
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Rumi
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Woody Allen
3 quotes“Showing up is eighty percent of life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Lao Tzu
3 quotes“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”