"You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you."

Source : Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

Joseph Conrad

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“Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.”
“I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.”
“Anybody who's putting out records is probably not making money at it.”

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“As president I would actually name the enemy, radical Islamic terrorists. We've got a president [ Barack Obama] who wants to apologize for America and wants to criticize medieval Christian and wants to wage war on junk food. He won't even say the words "radical Islamic terrorists."”

Source : "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.
“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].”

Source : H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books
“As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.”
“A gentleman is one who doesn't and can't forgive himself for self-committed mistake even if others forget it and the self-criticism is a mark of his right attitude towards life.”
“The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.60, John Wiley & Sons

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