"Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line."

-- Deborah Eisenberg

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“I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.”
“The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be with someone we don't love. Besides that, we invariably feel bored with ourselves, and all of our loneliness comes to the surface.We won't have the courage to go into that terrifying place without Love to protect us and lead us, without the light and love of God overriding our own self-doubt. Such silence is the most spacious and empowering technique in the world, yet it's not a technique at all. It's precisely the refusal of all technique.”
“My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver.”
“The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.”
“For prayers to be efficacious, they must be in harmony with the plan of heaven. The prayer of faith bears fruit when such harmony exists, and this harmony exists when prayers are inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
“I never know how much of what I say is true.”
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”

Source : Zhuangzi, Gia-fu Feng (1974). “Chuang tsu: Inner chapters”, Vintage
“My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.”

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