"I am no I. I am now part of a we."

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Source : Jerry Pinto (2014). “Em and the Big Hoom”, p.78, Penguin UK

Jerry Pinto

“Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.”
“The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.”
“It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?”

Source : Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1986). “Teacher”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.”
“Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”
“Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.”
“Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.”
“Sometimes compromise is important. Sometimes it's better to give in to someone else's wishes in order to have fun as a group or as a couple, or for the benefit of the team. Sometimes compromise is dangerous. We need to guard against compromising our standards to gain the approval or love of someone else. Decide when you can, and when you cannot, compromise. If it's not harmful and you are ambivalent about a decision, then compromise. If it could lead to breaking your values, compromise isn't a good idea.”

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