"Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature."

-- David Fontana

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“Perhaps after all the most breathtaking quality about San Francisco is these unexpected glimpses that you are always getting of beautiful hill-heights and beautiful valley-depths. ... City lights, like nests of diamonds, glitter and glisten in the depths of those valleys.”
“I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.”
“I invented the Web just because I needed it, really, because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.”

Source : "Rushes Sequences - Tim Berners-Lee interview - Ghana (Video)". Interview with Aleks Krotoski, www.bbc.co.uk. October 26, 2009.
“The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.”
“I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes and bodhisattvas, will come to an end. I hope this is something to which science can contribute ... it may be the most important contribution that we can make.”
“Travis Lutter is like the Michael Jordan of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.”
“Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.”
“Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain”

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