"New ways of seeing can disclose new things: the radio telescope revealed quasars and pulsars, and the scanning electron microscope showed the whiskers of the dust mite. But turn the question around: Do new things make for new ways of seeing?"

-- William Least Heat-Moon

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“With stillness comes the benediction of peaceâ€. â€œThinking isolates a situation or event and calls it good or bad, as if it had a separate existence.Â Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented.Â This fragmentation is an illusion, but seems very real while you are trapped in it.”
“Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.”
“A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.”
“it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.”
“The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.”
“When I was first drafted, I was just happy that any team wanted to take me, but it was the Red Wings, and that made it better.”
“All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?”
“All beginnings are involuntary.”

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