"Be open. And then the truth follows."

-- Gangaji

“Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?”
“I was living in Monterey, a place where the classic photographers - the Westons, Wynn Bullock and Ansel Adams - came for a privileged view of nature. But my daily life very rarely took me to Point Lobos or Yosemite; it took me to shopping centers, and gas stations and all the other unhealthy growth that flourished beside the highway. It was a landscape that no one else had much interest in looking at. Other than me.”
“If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.”
“In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.”
“All the dreams you show up in are not your own.”

Source : "New York Is Killing Me: The unlikely survival of Gil Scott-Heron" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. August 09, 2010.
“One must desire something to be alive.”
“Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 18, 2015
“Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"”

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