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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
«Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
compose, composition, hazard, sit down, stake
«True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories»
«To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low»
«Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
arts, composition, compositions, habits, original, originals, resolved, unformed, unprovided with, unskilled
«Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
composition
«When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Action,
Circumstances,
Men
| Keywords:
composition, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, dove, grain, serpent, The Dove
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy
«Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
accretion, accretions, compacted, composition, compositions, dialect, dialects, English language, freely, range, the English, viewed
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