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flower sunshine space
A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower. Nhat Hanh
flower heart reality
Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a flower, enabling us to enter the world of reality.
flower thinking doe
The organic gardener does not think of throwing away the garbage. She knows that she needs the garbage. She is capable of transforming the garbage into compost, so that the compost can turn into lettuce, cucumber, radishes, and flowers again...With the energy of mindfulness, you can look into the garbage and say: I am not afraid. I am capable of transforming the garbage back into love.
flower two summertime
If you come to Plum Village in the summertime, you see many lotus flowers. Without the mud the lotus flowers cannot grow. You cannot separate lotus flowers from the mud. It is the same with understanding and love. These are two kinds of flowers that grow on the ground of suffering
flower anger walking-meditation
Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.
flower heart blow
Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy.
flower worry positive-energy
With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible.
flower peaceful benefits
If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
flower looks cosmos
Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos.
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing trying moments
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. Andrew Motion
writing fiction literature
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction. Aleksandar Hemon
writing brain fiction
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
writing thinking personality
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. Alberto Moravia
writing ratios literacy
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
writing night light
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. Alberto Manguel
want nervous breakdown
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. Art Buchwald
want what-you-want ifs
If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. Eckhart Tolle
want way cold
If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too. Dr. Seuss
want able done
When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all. Dolly Parton
want senators
I don't want to be a senator. Deval Patrick
want kickboxing dialogue
I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing. Derek Luke
want tough spots
As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in. Dean Heller
want stuff forget
I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are. Amber Benson
want like-me one-thing
For someone like me, who prefers to keep their life as private as possible, it was disconcerting to have to define so much about myself. I don't want to be labeled as one thing or another. Amber Heard