"Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart."

-- David Brin

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“She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.”
“The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.”
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”

Source : Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet
“People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from oneâ€™s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.”
“One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.”
“Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event.”

Source : Cyndi Lee (2004). “Yoga Body, Buddha Mind”, p.32, Penguin
“I don't know if anybody's ever ready for another award season. It's kind of like Christmas.”
“Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.”

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