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The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.


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Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.



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Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.



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Because, you know, you're in Utah. And because of its political conservatism, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.



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This page presents the quote "The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.". Author of this quote is Stephen Levine. This quote is about buddhism, death-and-dying, meditation,.