Become totally empty. Quiet the restlessness of the mind. Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness.

Lao Tzu

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Anxiety contaminates the present with the pains of all imaginable futures. We cannot experience the fullness of the moment if we are forever suffering from hypothetical hardships.

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Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we're no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The mind in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.

You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you.

Just close your eyes and come and meet me in that place where we can share the music of our silence.

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