"If we doubt that the foundation for inner work is compassion for self and self-honoring behavior, we need only remind ourselves that the opposite approach, feeling guilty or judging ourselves has never really worked."

-- John Earle

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“If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.”
“They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “The Sound of the Mountain”, p.79, Vintage
“But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them.”
“Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.”
“God plans all perfect combinations.”
“At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.”

Source : Marlene Dumas, Emma Bedford, Standard Bank Centre Art Gallery (2007). “Marlene Dumas: Intimate Relations”, p.42, Jacana Media
“To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.”
“Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.”

Source : "Cnn Saturday Morning News" with T.J. Holmes, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2011.

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