B. Alan Wallace Quotes

#1. I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

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#2. Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

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#3. Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

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#4. An indispensable ingredient for spiritual maturation is the cultivation of fortitude: strength, forbearance, and patience.

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#5. Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.

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#6. Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

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#7. The mind that reaches out to other people, to the environment, to provide what it seems to lack itself, is a mind that is ignorant of its own resources for peace and happiness.

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#8. One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

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