"The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha."

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Source : Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.2, Harper Collins

Noah Levine

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“We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.”
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, â€˜Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,â€™ but itâ€™s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.”

Source : "The joys of solitude" by Phil Daoust, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.
“The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.”

Source : Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.
“I lean on a lot of drivers. I have a dirt racing background so I gravitate towards asking for advice from drivers who also dirt race, people like Clint Bowyer since dirt racers seem to have a similar driving style and like the car set up similarly.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.”
“Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.”
“I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.”
“When God wanted a city levelled, or all the first-born slaughtered in one night, he sent an angel.”

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