"Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being on the spot, your life can become workable and even wonderful. You realize that you are capable of sitting like a king or queen on a throne. The regalness of that situation shows you the... dignity that comes from being still and simple."

-- Chogyam Trungpa

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“No matter how sick your body is, extending Love will reduce your suffering and aid in healing.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.”
“If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.”
“People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie... It's all been really interesting.”
“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
“Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.”
“Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.”
“Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.”

Source : Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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