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Diana L. Eck

"The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used."

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Diana L. Eck

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“So what I am always looking for is, I'm always looking for something that that person has told me that nobody else has told me. It is normally not an opinion, and it is normally not a philosophy. It's almost always a story. Because we all share similar philosophies, we all share similar opinions on a lot of different issues, but all of our stories are our own.”
“We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprootedÂ from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as blackÂ Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves andÂ attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we hadÂ stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. AndÂ because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's hasÂ been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.”
“A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.”
“But we donâ€™t need more gimmicks and gadgets; all we need do is reimagine the way we travel. If we truly want to know the secret of soulful travel, we need to believe that there is something sacred waiting to be discovered in virtually every journey.”
“When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.”
“I've never run across anybody who suggested that women need to be reprogrammed. I don't think I've even come across anybody who wanted to teach a girl how to throw right. They just accept it is what it is. But honestly, folks, it's always reprogramming men. It's always men who seem to provide or be at the root of all of these cultural problems. And if we could just make men less like men and more like, I guess, women, then we would be rid of all of these problems.”
“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.”
“I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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