"Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another."

-- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”
“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.”
“How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)”

Source : Robert Ludlum (2013). “The Jason Bourne Series 3-Book Bundle: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum”, p.332, Bantam
“I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.”
“My mind is turning into kind of a fine gelatinous ball of pepper”
“Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line of development she tries an experiment once exceedingly thorough, and then the question is solved for all time. For she always takes time enough to try the experiment exhaustively. It took ages to find how to build a spinal column or brain, but when the experiment was finished she had reason to be, and was, satisfied.”
“What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.196, Penguin UK
“I don't see it as a risk, I see it as living.”

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