"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight."

-- Rumi

#Ocean Quotes #Sight Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.”
“We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.”
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
“Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. Everybody is free to interpret the music, as they want. The lyrics of my songs are about different things, but it's all about my issues.”

Source : "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.
“Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.”
“I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.”
“Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.”

Source : August Weismann, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Selmar Schönland, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley (1889). “Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems”
“The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us above the material universe. He would have his disciples apply themselves to this study, not that they may be able to buy or sell, not that they may qualify themselves to be shopkeepers or travelling merchants, but that they may learn to withdraw their minds from the ever-shifting spectacle of this visible and tangible world, and to fix them on the immutable essences of things.”

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