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Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch—there’s not a chance.
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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death.
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The resting place of the mind is the heart.
The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That’s where you need to go.
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one. . . . This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype—the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
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