"Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity."

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David Fontana

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“My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people!”
“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company
“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
“No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.”
“Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.”
“Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.”
“All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.”
“Kofi Annan's kangaroo court...a clear and present danger to the war on terrorism and Americans fighting it all over the world.”

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