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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
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«The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.»
«To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.»
«The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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«Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Pride
| Keywords:
aiming, aspiring, at the best, fallen angel, houses, rebel
«The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the peo»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
aiming, commonplaces, denouncing, hazards, leave off, moralist, moralists, rekindle, rekindled
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