Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.
("Eat, Pray, Love")
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Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.Elizabeth Gilbert
Four feet on the ground, a head full of foliage, looking at the world through the heart...
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We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
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Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
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The best we can do then, in response to our incomprehensible and dangerous world, is to practice holding equilibrium internally - no matter what insanity is transpiring out there.
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My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She did not cop out on herself. The benefits of her choices are massive-a long, stable marriage to a man she still calls her best friend; a family that has extended now into grandchildren who adore her; a certainty in her own strength. Maybe some things were sacrificed, and my dad made his sacrifices, too-but who amongst us lives without sacrifice?
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