"One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego."

-- Leonard Jacobson

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“Tech N9ne is worldwide, man, it's the biggest thing ever to me and if it happens to blow as big as I expect, I won't be able to go anywhere. That's what I'm prepared to do, because my goal is to get my music to the world.”

Source : Interview with Tim vonHolten, www.lawrence.com. December 11, 2003.
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”
“[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.”
“I don't want to speak to two empty chairs.”
“Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.”
“There's precious little comes of telling people what they don't want to hear ...”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1932). “Prologue to Love”, New York : Dodd, Mead
“Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch.”
“Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.”

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