Today’s One-Liner (#101)
It took me a long time to get to do consciously what I used to be able to do unconsciously. –Bob Dylan, in Jonathan Cott, Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
It took me a long time to get to do consciously what I used to be able to do unconsciously. –Bob Dylan, in Jonathan Cott, Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
The memory of you keeps callin’ after me like a rollin’ train –Bob Dylan, Brownsville Girl
Knocking’ on Heaven’s Door
Let us cease to consider what, perhaps, may never happen, and what, when it shall happen, will laugh at human speculation. We will not endeavour to modify the motions of the elements, or to fix…
Buddhist nontheism teaches us that no one else is going to liberate us. We are each responsible for our own liberation. Thus, self-self-liberation first is most important because without self-self-liberation true compassion, the fuel to…
“But power and greed and corruptible seedSeem to be all that there is” –Bob Dylan, Blind Willie McTell
Leave at your own chosen speed….
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Concentration, meditation, and pure contemplation focused on a single object constitute perfect discipline. 3.4—Barbara Stoler Miller, translation of Yoga Sutras Notes/Connections 1.Ekāgratā, noun, Sanskrit. One-pointedness, doing only one thing at a time, concentrating upon a…