"Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone"

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Hurt Quotes #Meditation Quotes #Way Quotes

“Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol.... If you think of Om only as a sound, a technique or a symbol of the Divine, you will miss it altogether. ..... Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the beings of the entire universe. It is an eternal song of the Divine. It is continuously resounding in silence on the background of everything that exists.”
“We can't laugh quite as much on camera, but we sure do on the set.”
“Iâ€™m grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease,”
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”
“Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.”
“I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.”
“Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles.”
“He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.”

Source : Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK

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