"Real peace comes only when you stop chasing it. When you relax your driving desire for comfort, real fulfillment arises. When you drop your hectic pursuit of gratification, the real beauty of life comes out. When you seek to know the reality without illusion, complete with all its pain and danger, that is when real freedfom and security are yours."

-- Henepola Gunaratana

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“Artists donâ€™t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.”
“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.”
“Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.”

Source : "J Mascis on the guitarists you really must hear" by Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.
“I knew that the right person for Crossroads would come along if we were just patient and made sure that we didn't try to force anything.”
“One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.”
“If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.”
“Your fingertips across my skin, the palm trees swaying in the wind - images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, the sweetest sadness in your eyes - clever trick. / I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, so you're gone and I'm haunted, and I bet you are just - fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?”

Source : "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.
“We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.”

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