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Jack Kornfield

Mature spirituality has little to do with altered states of consciousness. Powerful meditation and visionary experiences often initiate people into spiritual life, waking them up to untapped potentials. But mental disciplines, such as meditation cannot single-handedly sustain us on our journeys. We also need to open our hearts, then embody our love in everyday acts of attentive living. This integration of wisdom, love, and embodied action, which requires years of inner and outer work, constitutes our spiritual curriculum in today's modern world.

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Isaac Watts

Reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation that must form our judgment.

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Meister Eckhart, formally Meister von Hochheim

If we hold fast to the distinction between today and tomorrow and yesterday, we hold fast to nothingness.

Distinction | Tomorrow |

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Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL

He who least likes courting favor, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

Appetite | Distinction | Neglect | Think |

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

Distinction | Envy |

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Roger Babson, fully Roger Ward Babson

Experience has taught me that financial success, job success and happiness in human relations are, in the main, the result of (a) physical well-being; (b) constant effort to develop one's personal assets; (c) setting up and working toward a series of life goals; (d) allowing time for meditation and spiritual regeneration.

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Saint Ambrose, born Aurelius Ambrosius NULL

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

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Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron

There is no distinction between Thy divinity, Thy unity, Thy eternity, and Thy existence; for it is all one mystery.

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Benjamin Collins Brodie, fully Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet

Our minds are so constructed that we can keep the attention fixed on a particular object until we have, as it were, looked all around it; and the mind that possesses this faculty in the highest degree of perfection will take cognizance of relations of which another mind has no perception. It is this, much more than any difference in the abstract power of reasoning, which constitutes the vast difference between the minds of different individuals. This is the history alike of the poetic genius and of the genius of discovery in science. “I keep the subject,” said Sir Isaac Newton, “constantly before me, and wait until the dawnings open by little and little into a full light.” It was thus that after long meditation he was led to the invention of fluxions, and to the anticipation of the modern discovery of the combustibility of the diamond. It was thus that Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood, and that those views were suggested by Davy which laid the foundation of that grand series of experimental researches which terminated in the decomposition of the earths and alkalies.

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Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

Distinction |

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Thich Nhất Hanh

The secret of meditation is to be conscious of each second of your existence and to keep the sun of awareness continually shining - in both the physical and psychological realms, in all circumstances, on each thing that arises.

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Thich Nhất Hanh

Chopping wood is meditation. Carrying water is meditation. Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness. Each act is a rite, a ceremony. Raising your cup of tea to your mouth is a rite. does the word “rite” seem too solemn? I use the word in order to jolt you into the realization of the life-and-death matter of awareness.

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Thomas Fuller

The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.

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Thomas Fuller

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Determination | Distinction | Little | Men |

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Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson

You become spiritually rich when you discover the riches of the kingdom within: when you have a consciousness of the oneness of all life; when you experience kinship with nature; when you are open to the buoyant spiritual life of being in tune with the Infinite; when you know the power of meditation and prayer.

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