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61 " YOUR REAL HOMEHome is a place where you can just be yourself, be at peace, be at ease, be nothing, just empty and free. The purpose of meditation is to get you in touch with your real home, the place of stillness inside of you. You realize that your true home is carried around with you all the time. But how do we get in there? The door of your heart is open to you no matter what you do. Freedom, love, compassion, just being still, not controlling, letting go, is the door into that home inside of you. You don’t go there by measuring and by judging. You go there by quietness and not thinking. So you come through the door of your inner home where you can reside at will, at any time. "
― Ajahn Brahm
62 " But Buddha commanded Patacara to recover her presence of mind. Her madness left her, and she worshipped at Buddha’s feet. “Death of people we love is inevitable,” said the Buddha. “It is a waste of life to brood or become bitter. No one can shelter us from the fate that awaits us. It is therefore incumbent that we set off on the path to nibbana. "
― Ajahn Brahm , Falling is Flying: The Dharma of Facing Adversity
63 " gripping.You can attain this degree of stillness only by letting go of everything in the entire universe except for this momentary experience of the breath happening silently. "
― Ajahn Brahm , Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook