#avoid

What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#avoid #pain #touc #life

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#fire #hurt #love #pain #love

The avoiding, in many times and places, has proved so difficult that a very large part of the human race failed to achieve it. But in our own time and place it is extremely easy. Avoid silence, avoid solitude, avoid any train of thought that leads off the beaten track. Concentrate on money, sex, status, health and (above all) on your own grievances. Keep the radio on. Live in a crowd. Use plenty of sedation. If you must read books, select them very carefully, but you’d be safer to stick to the papers. You’ll find the advertisements helpful; especially those with a sexy or snobbish appeal. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#distraction #god #spiritual-intimacy #money

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#duty #his #making #making up #mind

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up. ↗

— Lily Aldridge

#avoid #ballet #boxing #cardio #i

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#been #behavior #i #trying

People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#brick #evolve #hit #level #next

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. ↗

— Malcolm X

#american #avoid #black #continue #i

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot. ↗