"The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances."

-- Bodhidharma

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“When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?”
“To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.”
“It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.”
“Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?”
“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.”

Source : Orson Welles, Peter Bogdanovich (1992). “This is Orson Welles”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I let beef get settled in the street, I just handle my business as a professional boxer.”
“...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.”

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