"If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."

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Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, Macmillan

Bodhidharma

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“I'm not really a tourist attraction kind of guy.”
“The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.”
“I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage.”
“Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.”
“Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.”

Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“We live in a world where you can walk into a bookstore and get a how-to guide on just about anything. But no one tells you how to die with dignity. No one tells you how to go out like the winner.”

Source : "Andrew Levitas’ End of Life Lullaby". Interview with Adrian Rapazzini, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 10, 2014.
“Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.”
“One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.”

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