"The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there."

-- Terry Riley

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“I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.”
“To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.”
“How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?”

Source : "Test Drive" by Paul Goldberger, www.newyorker.com. October 12, 2009.
“I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight”
“If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.”
“If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man's being a good poet without first being a good man.”
“Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.”

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