"Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer."

-- Willigis Jager

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“My stuff always starts with interviews. I start interviewing people, and then slowly but surely, a movie insinuates itself.”

Source : Interview With Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. April 23, 2008.
“It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.”
“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin”
“As a child I was attracted to Tarzan and everything that had to do with jungles. It seemed to me -- and this is in retrospect -- that there was something primal, something right about it. Tarzan represented a pure being, somehow before the fall.”
“Once youâ€™ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
“I've never thought of the Olympics as a political statement. I really think a boycott ... is in the wrong as far as the athletes are concerned.”
“There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.”
“Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.”

Source : Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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