"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."

-- Douglas Hofstadter

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“A lot of people play single to work some angle. I'm always about keeping it real. If that's how I'm living, that's how I'm living.”

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“I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.”
“I love people and entertaining. The fact I can still do it, and it's with my wife is phenomenal. I wanna reach 95 years!”

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“Any human being should have a tolerance for anybody.”
“You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.”
“The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2000). “You Have to Say Something”, p.93, Shambhala Publications
“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.”
“Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.”

Source : Robert W. Bly (2003). “Fool-Proof Marketing: 15 Winning Methods for Selling Any Product or Service in Any Economy”, p.98, John Wiley & Sons

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