"When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Larkin Grimm

#Goal Quotes #Guy Quotes #Say Anything Quotes

“My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?”
“Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.”

Source : Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”
“Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.”
“If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.”

Source : Sadhu Sundar Singh (2013). “At The Master's Feet”, p.45, Simon and Schuster
“The quota idea is a good one, but there are two problems with it. The first is clear: A quota system would also require all European countries to be prepared to take refugees. And secondly: What happens when the quota has been filled? Would we then simply tell those who are threatened, sorry but we have to send you back?”
“I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment.”

Source : Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com
“Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.”
“Love is messy. It's not something that's real clean.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 22, 2006.

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