"As long as we continue to be imprisoned within the corrupt and rancid norms of the intellect, it will be more than impossible to experience that which is not of the mind, that which is not of time, that which is real."

-- Samael Aun Weor

#Real Quotes #Long Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.”
“Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.”
“What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.”
“The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and is fueled by sexual dissatisfaction. Ads do not sell sex--that would be counterproductive, if it meant that heterosexual women and men turned to one another and were gratified. What they sell is sexual discontent.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage
“It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.”

Source : Hooman Majd (2008). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.196, Anchor
“Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.”
“Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.”
“Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.”

Source : "Business strategy: the lessons of the 'big ideas" by Robert Heller in his blog "Thinking Managers", June 30, 2009.

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