"You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present."

-- Eckhart Tolle

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“Even as you enter the fourth year after the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush is still misleading and deluding you and hiding the real reason from you.”
“Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.”

Source : Mabel Louise Robinson (1922). “Writing for Young People”
“One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.”
“A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.”

Source : Bai Juyi, “On The Lake (2)”
“Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.”
“Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific
“With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.”
“I've always considered transcribing to be an invaluable tool in the development of one's musical ear and, over the years, I have spent countless glorious hours transcribing different kinds of music, either guitar-oriented or not.”

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