“Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else.”
"He was a father. That’s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime."
- George Saunders
Love
"He was a father. That9s what a father does. Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime."
- George Saunders
Love
"The scariest thought in the world is that someday I’ll wake up and realize I’ve been sleepwalking through my life: under-appreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear and the habitual."
- George Saunders
Awareness
"Do all the other things, the ambitious things—travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes…but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness."
- George Saunders
Compassion
"Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth."
- George Saunders
Compassion
"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
- Alan Watts
Meditation
"The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth."
- Alan Wilson Watts
Meditation
"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'When He opens for you a way of getting to know Him, do not mind if the quantity of your actions lessen in its presence.'"
- Al Hikam of Ibn Ata Allah
Meditation
"When meditation is mastered, The mind is unwavering like the Flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, In the depths of meditation, The Self reveals itself. Beholding the Self By means of the Self, An aspirant knows the Joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that Abiding joy beyond the senses, Revealed in the stilled mind, He never swerves from the eternal truth."
- Bhagavad Gita
Meditation
"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."
Meditation