"Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself."

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Source : Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.19, Penguin

Bernie Glassman

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“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”
“Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.”
“If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.”
“My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.”
“Parody by itself is not subversive, and there must be a way to understand what makes certain kinds of parodic repetitions effectively disruptive, truly troubling, and which repetitions become domesticated and recirculated as instruments of cultural hegemony”
“You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'”
“Discourse about motherhood is chillingly narrow-minded. It's a tool the patriarchy uses, of course. So people complain about their kids or they complain about the pain of birth or they make motherhood kitschy, Mother's Day-y.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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