"You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is."

-- Alex Haley

“Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”

Source : Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.19, Penguin
“I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Of course I'd like to get beyond the concrete. But it's really difficult. Very difficult.”
“Approach the present with your heart's consent. Make it a blessed event.”
“Where your attention goes, you go.”
“Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!”
“Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter”
“Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.”

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