"American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other, linking value to air-brushed ideals, and as the girls in my seventh-grade class graduated to high school and beyond, the imagery around us would only grow more specific, more pummeling, more insidious."

-- Caroline Knapp

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“Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.”

Source : FaceBook post by Brandon Mull from Feb 21, 2013
“Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.”
“A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.”
“You know, the worldâ€™s not running out of oil. Thereâ€™s all kinds of oil left in all kinds of places. â€¦Weâ€™re never going to run out of oil. But what the world is going to run out of, indeed, what the world has already run out of, is the oil you can afford to burn.”
“I donâ€™t even have money for a cheeseburger!”
“After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.”
“There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.”
“It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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