What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.
Pema Chodron
Related It essentially would shut the county down. We would no longer be competitive. STEVE PESSAGNO Maybe we should shut Wall Street down for 24 hours, see how everybody who blames Wall Street for eve... RICK SANTELLI We shut him down pretty well. If we can frustrate him like that every night, hey, we're good. CAM JANSSEN If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down. DAVID SHORE They were pretty much blatant about it -- that the legislation would shut them down, and they didn't... JEFF ROSENTHAL When we live in ignorance, we live in darkness and that is where the devil rules. SUNDAY ADELAJA We were shut down. For this team to do that, it's just not acceptable. BRIAN RANDLE We just shut down as a team, ... They got more physical and we shut down. JERRY HAYES We're very concerned about it and the doctor said we have to shut him down. LLOYD MCCLENDON They shut us down completely in the second half. 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They have troubles scoring in the half-court offense... ANDRE MUSE We'll probably shut him down for the year, ... If he can't pitch in Cleveland, we'll shut him down. ... LOU PINIELLA If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ISAAC ASIMOV We shut them down and another one pops up. LAURA MERRITT Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut do... WAVY GRAVY We recently shut the facility down, moved the residents to other existing facilities that we own and... BILL CLEMENS With the two six-footers that Forman has, they're scoring almost all of the team's points in the pai... DAVE MACNUTT From 7 a.m. to noon, no aircraft landed. We were down to 400 feet visibility and no can take off or ... PHILIP GEE We've had some different games where we've had two main scorers we've had to shut down and we hadn't... DAVE CALLOWAY UCLA did not come ready to play, ... Once they got down, you could see they were acting like they we... MICHAEL JOHNSON We just have to try to tighten up in the middle of defence, because we have to shut the ball down wi... MARK BARRETT We don't go in thinking we're going to shut her down. We want to make her defend, especially if she'... DAVE KRAUTH The biggest thing is we found our groove defensively. I think we really shut them down. CLAY FITCH Where we are in terms of damage assessment is my initial assessment of these factories being shut do... DANNY LAM After we scored, they controlled the play for 10 minutes so we switched defenses and that shut them ... BUZZ GARVIN We shut (Terre Haute North) down at the beginning of the second half. DOUG MITCHELL Gnutella is a decentralized system. There's no single server that tells you all the information of w... ARAM SINNREICH There is no darkness but ignorance. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness, but ignorance. 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