Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.Ajahn Chah
“I endeavour to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress.”
“I endeavour to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there is no redress.”
— ELIZABETH MONTAGU
British writer and social reformer · 1718 – 1800
Elizabeth Montagu was a British social reformer, patron of the arts and a leading figure of the Bluestocking circle of intellectual women. She was also a wealthy coal owner who used her fortune for philanthropy.
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