"before speaking, notice what motivates your words."

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Source : Surya Das, Lama Surya Das (1997). “Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment : Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World”, Broadway

Surya Das

“I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence beyond human capacity-beyond as much as we are beyond a chimpanzee.”
“We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.”
“I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.”
“One's a dog-eat-dog world, and the other one's just the opposite.”
“The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.”

Source : "The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Goes Solo". Interview with Alex Cohen, www.npr.org. February 18, 2009.
“God loves you so much that he is willing to hold something from you for the perfect time!”
“Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.”
“Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.”

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