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“In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, the materialistic life can be so absorbing that we get caught in it and forget about spirituality. What we need, he said, is soul, in the middle, holding together mind and body, ideas and life, spirituality and the world.”

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Book:Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life
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“Being present” is key to many of the lessons related to life fulfillment. Being carefully aware of how you’re spending your time. Not allowing your mind and ego to rob you of the current moment. And, when you are in the present moment, looking, watching, and paying attention to all the things happening in your path, as this is where you will experience, see, and appreciate the many gifts that come your way.”

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Book:Seeking: 74 Key Findings to Raise Your Energy, Sidestep Your Self-Doubts, and Align with Your Life’s Work
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“I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.”

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Book:The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
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“I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.”

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Book:The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
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“I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.”

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Book:The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
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“A mind that listens with complete attention will never look for a result because it is constantly unfolding; like a river, it is always in movement. Such a mind is totally unconscious of its own activity, in the sense that there is no perpetuation of a self, of a “me,” which is seeking to achieve an end.”

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Book:The Book of Life: Daily Meditations With Krishnamurti
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“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.”

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Book:The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
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“Sometimes you get so jazzed on the moment you can actually hear the universe sing, as you swing from life’s high notes and hit the low notes equally, improvising artistically without missing a beat or hanging on like a leech, leaving each passing moment to zone in on the texture of the next melodic tones life continually brings‬.”

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Author:Curtis Tyrone Jones
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“It can be a blast when good people and good laughs teleport you back to the way it once was. But you poison yourself with the past when you constantly stab and inject yourself with vain memories that rubberband you back to the way it used to be! Your task of escape is to bring all the past dope shit into your present moment and let it guide the new path you will take, to the future that YOU choose to deliberately create!”

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Author:Curtis Tyrone Jones
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“He was gazing down at his phone, his shoulders tense, his spine curling toward it. She had the urge to call out to him, startle him with her voice: What’s in your phone that isn’t right here in front of you? There is a naked person in your bed. There is a breeze in the yard. Yet she knew there was plenty in his phone that wasn’t right here in front of him. The entire universe.”

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Book:Hum
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“By honing your presence in each of your social encounters, you may be able to convey to them that their inputs and necessities matter. This may prompt them to open up further and confide more things to you, and you may even receive more favors that can end up improving your own condition.”

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Book:The Personal Sustainability Handbook: 60+ Practices to Sustainabilize Your Health, Finances, Relationships and Beyond
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“The pace of this modern age is not conducive to maintaining one’s consciousness. Glued to our electronics, we are blind and deaf to the world around us. Run down by our long work days, we are too exhausted to think and too hurried to feel. The day ends in a haze of strained thoughts, numbness, and fatigue. And we rise the next morning only to start the cycle again. In this age of distraction, if you desire to fritter away your life with empty diversions, there is an abundance of gadgets available to aid you. Quietness is a characteristic of ages gone by. Our generation is the one it died with. Connected to the virtual world, we ignore the presence of those in our home. One can only hope we will awaken to the need for balance before we look up from the screen to find our loved ones have gone, and our life has passed us by.”

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Author:L.M. Browning
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“There is nothing now save for this room and this woman and this story. He can feel the way the story spreads out from this point, through space and through time and so much further than he ever imagined but this is the beating, buzzing heart of it. Right here and right now. He's calm again. Relieved to have his Max back and even though he knows they both have other people they belong with there is still this room and this dance and this moment and it matters, maybe more than any of the others.”

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Book:The Starless Sea
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“The concentration of a baby is alive wonderment. It is to that kind of organic interest, or passion, and awareness that Toni [Packer] seems to be pointing: listening that is not rote or methodical in any way. The baby has no sense yet of self-image, of itself as an object—a person—who needs to be improved, and Toni will question any meditation practice that contributes to such a picture.”

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Book:Bare-Bones Meditation: Waking Up from the Story of My Life
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