"To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ***** on a bicycle seat and peddle into hurricane wind for 8 hours at your max effort; there is your ENGAGED ZEN!"

“I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.”

“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.”

“And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye”

Source : Song: Circle Of Friends

“affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality. ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.”

“I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.”

“If the idea of the universe is presented to the child in the right way, it will do more for him than just arouse his interest, for it will create in him admiration and wonder, a feeling loftier than any interest and more satisfying.”

“Mosul stands rally at a sort of juncture of sectarian and ethnic differences.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.”