"First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now"

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Source : Jean Klein (2006). “I Am”, p.109, New Harbinger Publications

Jean Klein

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“I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.”
“You've got to understand that in Bollywood, every actor is an instrument, and yet a human being. They come to the set with a set agenda, believing, 'This is who I am, this is what I want, and no, I am not going to become that character you want me to.'”
“Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.”

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse
“The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters”

Source : Thomas Cahill (2010). “How the Irish Saved Civilization”, p.129, Anchor
“We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens”
“Marketing is about values. It's a complicated and noisy world, and we're not going to get a chance to get people to remember much about us. No company is. So we have to be really clear about what we want them to know about us.”
“I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.”

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