Abraham Verghese Quotes, Life Quotes

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

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NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

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We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.

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This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

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The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply. A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings. Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment. Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

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Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

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One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

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The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

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Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go.

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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

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Every human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.

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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

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The Warrior tries to enjoy the small everyday things of life.

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People learn, early in their lives, what is their reason for being. Maybe that's why they give up on it so early, too.

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