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What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.
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The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue
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A retreat from someone or something isn't unusual. Just as how you edge closer to see better, at times you may need to take a step back to get a clearer view.
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To not advance is to retreat.
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We're not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.'
Skulduggery Pleasant
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I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.
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To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.
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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
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Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.
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We're just going to retreat?"
"We are not retreating, we're advancing in reverse.
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Surrender. Surrender.
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More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that one can simply withdraw, and somehow achieve peace, or wisdom, or detachment, is a mistake. It is also, in most cases, inappropriate, selfish, and even cowardly.
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Nowhere can anyone find a # quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own # soul . We need to turn some things down and turn some things off. We need to be # quiet .
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Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace.
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[Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door]
Nollopton
Monty No-way 6
Insane woman named Ella:
Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone.
Anonymess
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We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
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Without any formal orders to retreat, what was left of the several organizations yielded to a general impulse to abandon the field. Officers and men became controlled by the one thought of getting as far as possible from the enemy.
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One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.
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If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come.
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.
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Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
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Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.
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We withdraw not to disappear, but to find another ground from which to see; a solid ground from which to step, and from which to speak again, in a different way, a clear, rested, embodied voice we begin to remember again as our own.
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There's a war going on outside no man is safe from.
You can run but you can't hide forever.
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Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting.
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Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.
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Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
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His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.
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We all retreat into ourselves in some way.
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What you don't do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don't give up.
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Push back the demands pressing in on you; create a safe space around you, a haven in which you can rest with Me.
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To retire to the monastery, or the woods, or the sea, is to escape from the sharp suggestions that spur on ambition.
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We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever," she'd said once. "Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time
and place we choose. Not them."
Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let's see if your advice gets me killed.
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The classic decision is always the same, whether to retreat or go on. There comes a time when it is easier to continue upward, when the summit, in fact, is the only way out. At such a moment one must still have strength.
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188 Driven by fear, people run for security to mountains and forests, to sacred spots and shrines. 189 But none of these can be a safe refuge, because they cannot free the mind from fear. 190
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Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains ... But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree ... when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.
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To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape.
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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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Where does one run to escape from feelings?
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Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.
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There's no bravery in running away, but there can be in surrender. Sometimes to surrender to someone else's chaos is the bravest thing you can do.
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Solitude is the place of purification.
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We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.
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General: I attempted to take Williamsport yesterday, but found too large a force of infantry and artillery. After a long fight, I withdrew to this place.
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Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
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I don't flee. I evade.
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Fleeing into aphorisms, the last refuge of an adult under siege.
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When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.
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Non-engagement or retreat can turn certain defeat into victory.
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We and the world, my children, will always be at war.
Retreat is impossible.
Arm yourselves.
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This is wilderness, to walk in silence.
This is wilderness, to calm the mind.
This is wilderness, my return to composure.
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Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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Weather out the storm in the island of tranquility to find inner peace.
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Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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Disappear! I scream the word in my mind, queen of the desolate landscape therein, ordering her ragged troops to a last stand.
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To understand one's world, one must sometimes turn away from it! To serve better, one must briefly hold it at a distance. Where can the necessary solitude be found, the long breathing space in which mind gathers its strength and takes stock of its courage.
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I'm essentially running from myself.
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It is the favourite stratagem of our passions to sham a retreat, and to turn sharp round upon us at the moment we have made up our minds that the day is our own.
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Coming to Haramara is like coming home. My body returns to the earth, my mind mesmerized by the rhythms of the ocean and my spirit flies in this magical place. Yoga is a way of life and Haramara Retreat is where we can re-educate ourselves to live in balance.
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Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.
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On the still calm waters of surrender, the reflections of clarity appears.
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In the storm of emotions, we can create a small, peaceful sanctuary within.
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British General Andrew Skeen, who faced a similar military mission in 1939, wrote, "When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.
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Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.
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attempt to escape,
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Wilderness is an antidote to the war within ourselves.
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Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.
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My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.
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In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.
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Not all returns are retreats, and if I wanted to go home, it wasn't a dream of escape, it was because love can't exist without the pain of separation, and so much of what I loved was there.
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If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.
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You see an army running after you, every minute they become more and more you run as much faster as possible, you leave everything behind your back to safe your ass... and after all you are alone silence is with you.
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The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to move, to round the next bend. The rest comes in the isolation from distractions, in the slowing of the daily centrifugal forces that keep us off balance.
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Going for refuge to Buddha,Dharma, and Sangha means that we apply effort to receiving Buddha's blessings, to putting Dharma into practice, and to receiving help from Sangha.
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Beware of extroverts in retreat center clothing!
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Where do you run when there is no escape? Where do you turn when the enemy within is as dangerous as the enemy unknown?
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The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself
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To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.
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What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life
the demon Thought.
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One can run away from anything but oneself
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It's not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you're schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind.
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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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Seeking refuge from a world in which huge and mysterious forces were let loose to destruction.
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To those who say that escaping is not courageous, we answer: what is not escape and social investment at the same time?
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Where did I surrender, can you tell me how and when. I'm the one who's always in control. Leading with my heart like there is nothing to defend as I lay it all out on the line body and soul. I've never let another in so soon.
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
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Trip away;
Make no stay
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In the end there's never a sanctuary. You run until there's nowhere left to run to, and then you fight, and then you die, and then it's over. That's how the world works, and if there's any way to change that, I hope someone's eventually planning to let me know.
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Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.
from the book 'I Know Who You Are!
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Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.
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When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.
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Somewhere hidden in all that chaos is a sanctuary
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As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.
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People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.
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The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.
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winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines. The
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The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled.
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O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.