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• Where does the ego get its energy? The ego feeds off your desire to be something else. You are poor and you want to be rich - the ego is absorbing energy, its life-breath. You are ignorant and you want to become a wise one - the ego is absorbing energy. You are a wretched nobody and you want to become powerful - the ego is absorbing energy.

  Rajneesh

  Wise, Powerful, Ego

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• The air is annoyingly potted with a multitude of minor vertical disturbances which sicken the passengers and keep us captives of our seat belts. We sweat in the cockpit, though much of the time we fly with the side windows open. The airplanes smell of hot oil and simmering aluminum, disinfectant, feces, leather, and puke ... the stewardesses, short-tempered and reeking of vomit, come forward as often as they can for what is a breath of comparatively fresh air.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Airplane, Sweat, Oil

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• Love is the eternal first breath.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Firsts, Eternal

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales". Book by Vanna Bonta. Chapter: "Home", 1989.

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• Love knows no difference between life and death
  The one who gives you a reason to live is also the one who takes your breath away

  Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

  Love, Differences, Life And Death

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• And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Beautiful, Sea

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Beyond”

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• Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Lord

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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• With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

  Rumi

  Taken, Generosity, Half

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• The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft.

  Virginia Woolf

  Time, Dark, Blue

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• I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to steady him. "Is this okay?" I whisper. "Are you okay?" His reply is anguished. Honest. "I love you."

  Stephanie Perkins

  Love, Hands, Honest

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.191, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The length and breath of our influence on others are directly related to the depth of our concern for them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Depth, Influence, Length

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.

  Richard Reti

  Lying, Games, Giving

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• Consider the ebb and flow of the tide. When waves come to strike the shore, they crest and fall, creating a sound. Your breath should follow the same pattern, absorbing the entire universe in your belly with each inhalation. Know that we all have access to four treasures: the energy of the sun and moon, the breath of heaven, the breath of earth, and the ebb and flow of the tide.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fall, Moon, Ebb And Flow

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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• YOUR HEART IS FULL of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Spring, Flower, Heart

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.40, Shambhala Publications

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• Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.

  Mal Peet

  Cousin, Believe, Kissing

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• There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind - no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Silly, Mean, Angel

  Chogyam Trungpa (2002). “The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation”, p.69, Shambhala Publications

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• To awaken, sit calmly, letting each breath clear your mind and open your heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Heart, Mind

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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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• Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

  Phil Ochs

  Doe, Wonder, Liberalism

  "Have you Heard? The War is Over!". The Village Voice, November 23, 1967.

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• And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Mistress, Sound

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

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• Only as the written text began to speak would the voices of the forest, and of the river, begin to fade. And only then would language loosen its ancient association with the invisible breath, the spirit sever itself from the wind, the psyche dissociate itself from the environing air.

  David Abram

  Air, Wind, Voice

  David Abram (1996). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-human World”, Pantheon

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• Nurses are there when the last breath is taken and nurses are there when the first breath is taken. Although it is more enjoyable to celebrate the birth, it is just as important to comfort in death.

  Christine Bell

  Taken, Nursing, Nurse

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• The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Two, Space, Three

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• When you focus on what you have, your ABUNDANCE increases. I started with my breath. Noticing being alive is a good start!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Focus

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• [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

  Robin Williams

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Family And Friends

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