"The possibilities of percussion sounds, I believe, have never been fully realized"

-- Charles Ives

#Believe Quotes #Sound Quotes #Possibility Quotes

“What is the relationship between awareness and thinking? Awareness is the space in which thoughts exist when that space has become conscious of itself.”
“I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.”
“My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.”
“I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.”
“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.”

Source : 1956 Collected in The Journals,'The Late Forties and Fifties'.
“If we cannot remain present during sleep, if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? If we enter our dreams and interact with the mind's images as if they are real, we should not expect to be free in the state after death. Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.17, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“Weâ€™re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware â€“ beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.”
“What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.”

Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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