Quotes
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E. J. Gold

"You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do."

-- E. J. Gold

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“What I try to do is to make your face look like it did when you were younger. I always tell people it's not just about filling in the lines, but re-creating the shape of your face as it was in your early- or mid-twenties. People see the lines as they age but they don't see how their shape is changing. I think it's all about restoring the contours. You can fill in a line and it makes you look a little better, but it doesn't make you look younger.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.”
“Sunday night, I reread The Catcher in the Rye until I felt tired enough to fall asleep. Only I never got tired enough. And I couldn't read, because reading didn't feel the same.”
“People? People have been obsolete for years, They've made the world a place where there's no room left for their own kind.”
“You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.”
“It is the disease of not listening...... that I am troubled with.”
“The early masters also introduced walking meditation and hard work to the monastery, for too much sitting could reach the point of diminishing returns.”

Source : James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.9, MIT Press
“Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation.”

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