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The fruits of meditation, when it is
truly achieved, give one a new lease on life, redouble an individual’s capacity
for vigorous and creative action by eliminating all obsession with the pursuit
of pleasure or the evasion of pain, and indeed promote the full enjoyment of
life with all its good and bad, its beauty and ugliness. It permits one to act
instead of constantly reacting. It frees the mind from the eternal conflict of
the opposites. Even more, it enhances one’s feelings of compassion so that this
freedom cannot be used to the detriment of others and that alone is no small
virtue in today’s environment.
---from The
Quiet Mind by John E. Coleman
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