"In my world, nothing ever goes wrong."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.”
“On the road, I weigh 168. At home, ten more.”

Source : "Justin Townes Earle: Steve’s Son? Yes, Just as Talented, but Not Political and Much More Fun". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2010.
“But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.”
“The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.”
“The phrase 'contrary to all expectations' rings through the story of the progress of human knowledge. It was 'contrary to all expectations' that the Earth was found to revolve around the sun, and not the other way round, and that a mould growing in one of Dr. Alexander Fleming's dishes was found to be capable of destroying bacteria. When in 1989 the spacecraft Voyager 2 got close enough to the planet Naptune to take detailed pictures of the surface, they were 'contrary to all expectations'.”
“If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!”
“We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.”
“God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

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