"Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith."

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Pico Iyer

#Different Quotes #Sanctuary Quotes #Findings Quotes

“I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.”
“I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.”
“The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external perparation... to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak... I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character of LSD as a sacred drug.”

Source : "LSD: My Problem Child". Book by Albert Hofmann. Chaoter 11: "LSD Experience and Reality", www.psychedelic-library.org. 1980.
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
“Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly.”
“None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.”
“Strangely, from a life-change standpoint, I sold the company I was running and got divorced in the same month. And so there I was, at home, and I'm not the CEO. I took a few months thinking about what I wanted to do. When the first call came in about running a company owned by Deutsche Telekom, I thought it was laughable and really not something I'd do. I took the meeting mainly because the headhunter I knew. At first I thought I was just helping her fill out the roster, but then I dug into it.”

Source : "The T-Mobile CEO who calls his competition ‘dumb and dumber’ explains how he doubled customers in 4 years, and how a group of employees made him cry". Interview with Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. October 7, 2016.
“A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.”

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