Quotes
Authors
Bernadette Roberts

"......at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self."

Source : Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.13, SUNY Press

Bernadette Roberts

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“Exciting underground stuff is easier to find with YouTube than it used to be. You don't have to go to the dive bar in the bad part of town to see a band you would never usually see. My personal experience with it, when I was looking for a new lead guitarist, I was able to stalk guitarists on Youtube. And instead of having a horribly embarrassing auditioning process, I could check out peoples' playing. In some ways, you go into a record shop and the selection is narrower than it used to be with pop ruling the roost, but if you look, there's so much more to be found.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.”
“I talk to the audience, look into their eyes. I need them and they need me.”
“I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who was murdered by the state, though innocent.”
“I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.”

Source : "Jonah and Vanessa Bayer on Sound Advice, sibling rivalries, and childhood bribery". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2015.
“Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.”
“I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.”
“The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.”

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