In our practice, we have no particular purpose or goal, nor any special object of worship.

Shunryu Suzuki

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The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Jetsun Milarepa

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the most intense activity, and in the midst of the most intense activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Swami Vivekananda

Life needs both: thorns and roses, days and nights, happiness/unhappiness, birth/death. Be a witness to it all and you will know something that is beyond birth, beyond death; something that is beyond darkness and beyond light; something that is beyond happiness, beyond unhappiness.

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