"The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of the mind. Whatever you have understood, you are not. Why are you getting lost in concepts? You are not what you know, you are the knower."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures.”
“The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.232, Penguin
“The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows”
“Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.”
“In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.”
“One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.”

Source : Teju Cole (2016). “Known and Strange Things”, p.104, Faber & Faber
“Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.”

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