"Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad."

-- John Coltrane

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“Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.”
“Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.”
“To create something you want to sell, you first study and research the market, then you develop the product to the best of your ability.”
“Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.”

Source : Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated
“Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.”
“Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

Source : Last Poems (1922) no. 9
“Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.”
“We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and its a totally understandable need because we are animals and we need to understand order and where to fit in.”

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