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

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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. – William E. Simon

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When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. – Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika

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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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