"Of two men looking at a green field, one estimates its yield in bushels and calculates the price of the bushels in silver and in gold. The other drinks the greenness of the field with his eye, and kisses every blade with his thought, and fraternizes in his soul with every rootlet and pebble, and every clod of earth."

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Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.116, Duncan Baird Publishers

Mikhail Naimy

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“My goal is to never lose. That may not be realistic, but I'm going to try.”
“Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.”
“When you awaken, you know that everything that occurs at the level of mind is illusory in nature and so you no longer believe in it as the truth of life. It is sometimes happy and sometimes sad, because it is a world of duality. You relax and accept the dual nature of the world of the mind and the world of experience within time. This will create balance within duality which will open the doorway to Oneness.”
“Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.60, Cosimo Classics
“What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation...if we're not updating what we mean by God...what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.”

Source : "Mental Off-Roading Radio With Doug Pagitt And Michael Dowd". Interview with Doug Pagitt, John Musick, apprising.org. November 15, 2010.
“Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.”
“My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,”
“Snarky, sexy and so much fun. Sugar Jamison is sure to be a hit!.”

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