Gregg Braden is an American author who seeks to bridge science and spirituality. He is well known for his appearances on the television shows Ancient Aliens and The Missing Link.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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