"Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior."

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Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Henepola Gunaratana

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“You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.”

Source : J. Vernon McGee (1983). “1 Corinthians Through Revelation”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,--Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.”
“It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."”

Source : "Rob Corddry on Pain & Gain, Being from Boston, and Absurdity". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.
“A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.”

Source : Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”
“When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.”
“I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.”
“I want people to think about what and who they have in their lives and then run home to hug them and tell them how much they love them.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four..”

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