"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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“When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.”

Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.226, Crown Business
“When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.”
“I am living breathing freedom.”
“Found out. A nothing player.”
“If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.”
“I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.”
“Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.”

Source : "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.
“When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.”

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