Paraphrasing Yeats: It was as the Irish poet had written, a waste of breath, the years that had gone past, the years to come. There was only the present moment to live and die in. [ref. An Irish Airman Foresees His Death ...The years to come seemed w...
In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.
...there is something very vital happening when we breathe—without it we die—but trying to speed it up, force it, grasp it, push it away or control it tends to get in the way. As in breathing, so in life—we can learn a lot from the natural rhyt...
We're all family--the only family we've got. It doesn't have to be blood.
Breathing is medicine. I forgot how to breathe, but I’m learning all over again.
The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.
The Joker: [Talking to Bob] You [heavy breathing] The Joker: are my number one [heavy breathing] The Joker: guy.
[last lines] Donkey: Oh, that's funny. Oh. Oh. I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the...
He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.
I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the opera.
The moon can never breathe, but it can take our breath away with the beauty of its cold, arid orb.
I am alive because I am breathing, and I am breathing because God is great and merciful.
Audrey Griswold: She breathed on me! A dead person breathed on me!
He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be too shallow a word for what I feel for you. These past two weeks it's been as if you control my breathing. When I watched you with Marcus, my chest would tighten, and it became hard to breathe. But then I wou...
The most incredible architecture Is the architecture of Self, which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breathe you are adding to your lif...
Sometimes living with him is like being told to hold my breath as a matter of life and death - but never being told when to let that breath out. So I don't know what to do for the best. To let out that breath and suffer the consequences or to keep ho...
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die..
Concentration is not to try hard to watch something... Concentration means freedom... In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and jus...
Life starts and it ends with a breath, in between these two breaths lays a story; a child is born and explores the world; the child smiles and cries; the child lives and becomes a man; the man learns that life is neither good or bad, just beautiful t...
