"Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together."

-- Assata Shakur

#Book Quotes #College Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.”
“I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.”
“I don't know how to depict intelligence.”
“What will be / the sacred words?”
“What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.”

Source : Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.30, Conari Press
“The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2015). “The House of Souls: Horror Stories Collections”, p.71, 谷月社
“I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.”
“If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.”

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