"Freedom is the recognition of contingency."

-- Richard Rorty

#Recognition Quotes #Contingency Quotes

“I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.”
“Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method formaking one's life purposeful, useful and noble.”
“In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.”
“To teach our kids how to run our country, before they are called upon to run our country . . . if we don't, someone else will run our country.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Good day, fair maidens.”
“We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we attribute responsibility to - we say "I", "I" did this because "I" wanted to, because "I" am a good person or because "I" am a bad person. The loop is the fact that we represent our selves, our desires, hopes, dreads and dreams: it is the way in which we conceive of ourselves, rather than the way we conceive of Mount Everest or of a tree. And I say it exists entirely in the loop: the self is an hallucination hallucinated by an hallucination.”
“As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.”
“For a time, people were getting arrested for photographing the Brooklyn Bridge. So to me, what it meant to do photography also changed. There was a new kind of politics to it - something that was very aggressive and dangerous - and a presumption that it would reveal some kind of truth or evidence.”

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