"The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world."

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Source : Stephen Batchelor (1983). “Alone with Others: An Existential Approach to Buddhism”, p.105, Grove Press

Stephen Batchelor

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“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.”
“I donâ€™t believe in all this public-funded health care, we canâ€™t afford it. If you want health care, you pay for it.”
“I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.”
“We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.”

Source : "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
“For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.”
“I meet with virtually everybody that comes down to Olympia, that Facebook messages me or emails me or calls me on the telephone. And, in particular, last year I was very proud to go speak before a group that I was invited to by a lesbian anarchist, I mean, my goodness gracious! I can listen and work with anybody.”
“Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”

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