"We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center."

-- Adyashanti

#Self Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Who We Are Quotes

“My agent said that I was one of the top three busiest people in the country.”
“When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.”
“There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.”

Source : John C. Lilly, Antonietta Lilly (1976). “The Dyadic Cyclone: The Autobiography of a Couple”
“Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered.”
“The tides are in our veins.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.39, Stanford University Press
“What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.”
“If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.”
“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

Source : "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.

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