"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."

-- Jack L. Chalker

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“The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.”
“To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Oct 17, 2014
“Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services.”
“I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed.”
“I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.”
“In its effect on family relationships, in its facilitation of parental withdrawal from an active role in the socialization of their children, and in its replacement of family rituals and special events, television has played an important role in the disintegration of the American family.”
“The last night of love, the first night of war”

Source : "The Last Night of Love, The First Night of War". Book by Camil Petrescu, 1955.
“When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.”

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