Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Anaïs Nin

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But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

Sandra Cisneros

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Just try, try to be right here, open, honest, straight.

Having a calm and compassionate mind enables us to use our natural intelligence more effectively.

14th Dalai Lama

All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.

People think it would be nice to have peace of mind, to be serene, to be calm, to be undisturbed by this, that, and the other. But as long as you make all those things objects of desire, you have defined yourself as lacking them.

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