"Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant."

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Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications

A. H. Almaas

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“When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer.”
“Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.”
“Weâ€™re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way thatâ€™s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.”
“Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.”
“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.”
“I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotionally direct and honest about how I put the material with the images. You hope that the strength of mise-en-scene comes from an honesty towards the material. You also hire really well.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“A lot of us grew up in public. That often means that you have to fail in public too.”
“I guess Ive always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.”

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