"all our suffering is associated with this pre-occupation. All loss and gain, pleasure and pain arise because we identify so closely with this vague feeling of selfness that we have. We are so emotionally involved with and attached to this "self" that we take it for granted."

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Source : "The Embodied Mind". Book by Francisco Varela, p. 63, 1991.

Francisco Varela

#Pain Quotes #Loss Quotes #Self Quotes

“I spent time at my grandfather Dino's gourmet store where he brought in chefs from Naples to cook. I thought of them as rock stars.”
“Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.”
“The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.”
“Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.”

Source : Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org
“The truth can only be recalled, never invented.”
“It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.”

Source : Samuel R. Delany (1993). “Tales of Nevèrÿon”, p.201, Wesleyan University Press
“There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.”

Source : "There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire" by Ewen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2006.
“A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.”

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