"Instant enlightenment. A quintessential modernism, culture and religion accommodated to the age of fast food and bumper stickers. But psyche and spirit are not so exempt from the natural domain that they can simply produce self-change instantaneously, on demand. Wisdom precipitates through a notoriously slow apparatus of retorts and flasks, and it has to find receptive ground only in a properly seasoned mind."

-- Kenny Smith

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“Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.54, Verso
“Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.”

Source : "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom" by Gill Farrer Halls, (p. 162), 2000.
“I realized the more fun I had, the more relaxed I was working, the better I worked.”
“We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.”
“Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.”
“A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.”
“Too young for woe, though not for tears.”
“Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.”

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