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“The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.”

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Jack Kornfield is an American author and meditation teacher, born in 1945. His works mainly focus on Buddhist meditation and spiritual growth, which have won him a wide audience. more

“Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.”

Ifs Men Evil Differences Moral Goodness Intention Historian Spares Arrangements Sensitivity Vulgar Good Intentions Tedious Exposing Psycho Bad Man Egalitarianism

Author:Willard Gaylin

“A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.”

Men Eye Alphabet Astonishment Moths Snail

Author:Alejo Carpentier

“You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.”

Knows Want What You Want

Author:Dan Greenburg

“The things which ... are esteemed as the greatest good of all ... can be reduced to these three headings, to wit : Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With these three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.”

Thinking Mind Three Pleasure Fame Riches Wit Headings

Author:Baruch Spinoza

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