Barnstaple Leisure Quotes & Sayings

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality. — Sharon Salzberg

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth. — Carol Tavris

I simply don't understand. I have not the remotest clue what the nature or extent of my neighbor's woes can be. Practical troubles, griefs that can be assuaged if only there is enough to eat - these may be the most intense of all burning hells, horrible enough to blast to smithereens my ten misfortunes, but that is precisely what I don't understand: if my neighbors manage to survive without killing themselves, without going mad, maintaining an interest in political parties, not yielding to despair, resolutely pursuing the fight for existence, can their griefs really be genuine? Am I wrong in thinking that these people have become such complete egoists and are so convinced of the normality of their way of life that they have never once doubted themselves? — Osamu Dazai

For a second after Askan had breathed upon him the stone lion looked just the same. Then a tiny streak of gold began to run all over him as the flame licks all over a bit of paper- then, while his hindquaters were still obviously stone, the lion shook his mane and all the heavy, stone folds rippled into living hair. — C.S. Lewis

I really care about you and I don't want to anymore because it feels too shitty for me. — Hannah