"Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

#People Quotes #Enlightened Quotes

“We can thank our lucky stars when once in a blue moon we find rare and kindred souls along the pathways of our lives.”
“I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.”
“Photographers mistake the emotion they feel while taking the photo as a judgment that the photograph is good”
“It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.”
“I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.”
“Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?”
“America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.”

Source : "Anthropology and Politics". Book by Ernest Gellner, 1995.
“If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.”

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