"Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation."

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Source : Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing

Guo Jun

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“Journeys start from where we are. Everything starts from where we are. Where we are is where we're supposed to be.”

Source : Evelyn Eaton (2014). “The Shaman and the Medicine Wheel”, p.11, Quest Books
“I have been absolutely clear where I'm coming from about health care reform. This is something this nation has to do and a robust public option has been the mantra of my campaign from the very outset.”
“The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority.”
“It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.”
“Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the lives of individuals. And fiction will always be central to the lives of certain people, which is all that matters.”
“Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.”

Source : "Conor Maynard: 'I wanted to prove I'm not Bieber 2.0'". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.
“You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.”

Source : "Hal Prince, ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ Director, Opens Up On The Show’s 25th Anniversary". Interview With Amy Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2011.
“The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.”

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