Forget About Enlightenment

David Price
4 min readJul 25, 2024
Margarita Sikorskaia

The easiest way to raise your vibration is to relax your body. The most essential way to relax your body is to slow your breath. The most effective way of slowing your breath is by loving your heart.

~ Matt Kahn

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I want to do the right thing, but often I don’t know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart.

Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task’s undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.

~ Carl August Sandburg

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Forget about

enlightenment

and just become

a nicer person.

This is already a

difficult practice.

~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

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A strange empty day. I did not feel well, lay around, looked at daffodils against the white walls, and

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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