"If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment."

-- Elif Safak

#Past Quotes #Illumination Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized of their own accord; they were born on the canvas... it is absurd to read any sort of symbolic significance into them.”
“We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world.”
“India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources”
“Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.”
“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.”
“As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences.”
“If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.”

Source : "Readers recommend: best saxophone songs" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.
“I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.”

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