Nyanaponika Thera Quotes
Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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I'm very interested to see how this new painting will go - I know I want it big and stark, and as I said, I follow the muse, and that's when it always works perfectly for me.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.
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The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
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There are a million studies that say the money you put into a kitchen and bath update you get back. That's one of those places you can't go wrong. It can be as simple as updating counters and a backsplash.
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'Nip/Tuck' did make me very comfortable in my own skin, no pun intended. I had to be stripped down a lot, and you're kind of in front of the whole world, and it teaches you to accept yourself and be comfortable with yourself real quickly.
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A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking.
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I generally will answer any question about anything.
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Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
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One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
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La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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Mindfulness, though so highly praised and capable of such great achievements, is not at all a "mystical" state, beyond the ken and reach of the average person. It is, on the contrary, something quite simple and common, and very familiar to us.
