"So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people downâ€¦A real god doesnâ€™t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them."

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Source : Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.274, Tor Books

Orson Scott Card

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“Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.”

Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library
“Songs give you incredible opportunity to convey a tremendous amount in a relatively short period of time. The first thing that John Powell, our composer, says is, "Is the song engaging you to tap your toe?" If you're not tapping your toe, it doesn't matter what you're doing in the song, it's not going to work. But, if you can get the audience to be engaged by the song, then it gives you the opportunity to accomplish so much, in a very concise way.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Many nights, I longed for home. But it occurred to me as I struggled for a feeling of comfort and safety: I have no idea where home is.”
“Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 53,
“I like it when every pitch counts. There are a lot of people who see it as a negative, but I try to feed off it.”
“What binds us to space-time is our rest mass, which prevents us from flying at the speed of light, when time stops and space loses meaning. In a world of light there are neither points nor moments of time; beings woven from light would live "nowhere" and "nowhen"; only poetry and mathematics are capable of speaking meaningfully about such things.”
“In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out.”
“I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.”

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