#sam

The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice of insight meditation. The experience of absorption is one of intense pleasure and happiness, brought about by purely mental means, which thereby automatically eclipses any pleasure arising in dependence on material objects. Thus absorption functions as a powerful antidote to sensual desires by divesting them of their former attraction. ↗

— Anālayo

#meditation #samadhi #vipassana #experience

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#contributes #convulsion #death #good #implication

Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#gay-marriage #gay-rights #homosexual #humor #marriage

One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#believe #black #could #deep #each

O Sam! cried Frodo. 'What have I said? What have I done? Forgive me! After all you have done. It is the horrible power of the Ring. I wish it had never, never, been found. But don't mind me, Sam. I must carry the burden to the end. It can't be altered. You can't come between me and this doom. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#frodo #j-r-r-tolkien #sam #the-return-of-the-king #the-ring

I hope you don’t mind, but I took the liberty of taking away your freedoms. –Uncle Sam
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— Jarod Kintz

#government #liberty #oppression #uncle-sam #freedom

It is better to die fighting than to die on your knees. ↗

— Emiliano Zapata

#ruby-emam #samad-beh-rang #the-little-black-fish #freedom

May 1, 2011 Young jubulent Americans celebrating the killing of a murderer of women and children, and people ask; "Is it right to celebrate?" I watched these Americans in Times Square, D.C. and the world , a great generation, that died for freedom and that of the oppressed, and people ask; "Is it right to feel joy?" "Yes, I sat proudly with tears in my eyes." I was watching footage of the end of World War Two.....Johnny Flora ↗

— Johnny Flora

#freedom

So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this? ↗

— Julie Chen

#chips #getting #i #legal #less

You have no idea how much I appreciate your friendship,” Jules said. Sam held out several bills. “Yeah, actually I do,” he said. “It’s probably as much as I appreciate yours. ↗

— Suzanne Brockmann

#jules #sam #friendship