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In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all grea

In this very breath that we now take lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. – Peter Matthiessen

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The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. – Peter Matthiessen

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We live in an ocean of air like fish in a body of water. By our breathing we are attuned to our atmosphere. If we inhibit our breathing we isolate ourselves from the medium in which we exist. In all Oriental and mystic philosophies, the breath holds the secret to the highest bliss. – Alexander Lowen

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Ancestral Teacher Qiu said, “If the breathing is at all unsettled, life is not your own.” – “Heaven and Earth,” c. Ming dynasty work Anthology on the Cultivation of Realiza

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If you woke up breathing, congratulations! You have another chance. – Andrea Boydston

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He lives most life whoever breathes most air. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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