"One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand."

-- Rumi

#Hands Quotes #Keys Quotes #Sight Quotes

“I think that we all carry the divine within us.”
“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.”
“Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.”

Source : "Rants & Raves", www.wired.com. November 25, 2002.
“I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children”
“I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.â€ â€“ Associated Press interview, 12-7-11”
“We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all of our societal organizations-government, commerce, religion-it's right there, waiting to happen. I often tell people that every mind is like a room in an old house, stuffed with very old furniture. Take any space in your mind and empty it of your old conceptions and new ones will rush in, good or bad. So change is more a getting rid of rather than an adding to or an acquiring.”
“The foundation of beauty is the body.”
“I've been broke more than I've been rich. I like being in the middle way better.”

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