"We see things as we are, not as they are."

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Source : Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

Leo Rosten

#Appearance Quotes

“On a personal note I want to gain more confidence and give back in any way I can.”
“You're the Picasso of pain.”
“What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.”
“Without a body and without time, I wasn't disturbed by my ego or by the function or dysfunction of my brain and memory. And during my pure perception within the source, I had no opinion either. I didn't even have an 'I.' An opinion is tied to the ego, and the ego to the body. Without any of this, there was only objective consciousness.”
“The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.
“I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.”
“Kids are plugged into some sort of electronic medium 44 hours per week.”
“The cat is the only animal which accepts the comforts but rejects the bondage of domesticity.”

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