"We need to transcend our thoughts and desires to truly understand philosophy and the universe as a whole. However, in our everyday life, we deal with the micro universe and with our own affairs. Therefore we need to use our brain. To practice Tao is not to rid yourself of all thoughts. There are actually more occasions when you would use your true intention instead of non-desire."

-- Henry Chang

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“Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.”
“Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.”
“I do date quite frequently.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.”
“Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.”
“You see, you donâ€™t want me to love you. You want the version youâ€™ve made up. The knight, even though Iâ€™m the dragon and I always will be.”
“There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.”
“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247

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