"Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?"

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Source : Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

Edna Woolman Chase

#Hands Quotes #Together Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.”
“I am not a monster, I am just a man.”
“Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.”
“Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.”
“Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
“It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.”
“People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.”
“I could easily blast so much keef night and day I become a bouhali; a real-gone crazy, a holy untouchable madman unto whom everything is permitted, nothing is true.”

Source : Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.77, The Overlook Press

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