“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”
~ Deepak Chopra
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Election time
“We should all welcome the disappearance of a ministry which has neither achievement in the past, policy in the present, nor prospects in the future, to justify its existence.”
Chris Watson, first Australian Labor leader 1905
Writers are
“Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.”
A Lee Martinez
Waking up is
“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be“
Alan Watts
A child is
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Love is
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Freedom is
“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Forgiveness is
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Mark Twain
