"How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging."

-- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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“The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.”
“You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.”

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“To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.”
“I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.”
“They may outsmart me, or be luckier, but they can't outwork me.”
“You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.”

Source : Paula Fox (2016). “The Slave Dancer”, p.19, Open Road Media
“It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.”
“I — I mean," Kate stumbled on, "that with us there is a time past and time present, and time future, and with your gods perhaps there is time forever; but God in Himself has the whole of it, all times at once. It would be true to say that He came into our world and died here, in a time and a place; but it would also be true to say that in His eternity it is always That Place and That Time — here — and at this moment — and the power He had then, He can give to us now, as much as He did to those who saw and touched Him when He was alive on the earth.”

Source : Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard Cuffari (2001). “The Perilous Gard”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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