Paul Fleischman Quotes

• You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

  Paul Fleischman

  Spring, Lakes, Cleveland

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• The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

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  Peace, Simple, Two

  Paul Fleischman (2012). “Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka”, p.49, Pariyatti Publishing

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• A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

  Paul Fleischman

  Voice, Thousand

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• Television, I'm afraid, has isolated us more than race, class, or ethnicity.

  Paul Fleischman

  Race, Ethnicity, Class

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• Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is the ultimate reality of your own life.

  Paul Fleischman

  Mean, Reality, Mindfulness

  Paul Fleischman (2012). “Ancient Path: Talks on Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka”, p.52, Pariyatti Publishing

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• That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap opera growing out of the ground. I'd forgotten that tremolo of expectation produced by a tiny forest of sprouts.

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  Home, Garden, Circles

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• The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. ... But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors.

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  Life, Friendship, Eye

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• A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. It was a mind-altering drug we took daily.

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  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• Radio listeners are voyeurs: lurking, invisible, eavesdropping.

  Paul Fleischman

  Radio, Invisible, Listeners

  Paul Fleischman (2003). “Seek”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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