Hakuin Ekaku Quotes
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
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When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
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I am certain that Gadi Lesin's abilities and the experience he accumulated during his sixteen years in a variety of general management roles in Strauss Group in and outside of Israel will enable him, together with group management and all managers and employees of Strauss, to continue to take the group forward to further success.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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Yes, we have the body here; this we have had before.
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Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!
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This would have been a bad one to lose, man, because we did put our effort on defense. We did play one of the best defensive games that we played.
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The jealous have but moments of Delight for years of Pain.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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It grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.
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The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.
