"This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it."

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Source : Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

Stanislav Grof

#Perfect Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“To know what you want, to understand why you're doing it, to dedicate every breath in your body to achieve... If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for then there's nothing you can`t achieve.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.”
“So I built my entire career in the United States and that's why it feels like I'm an American actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.”
“The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.”
“I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originally conceived to be live action, but I never really wanted it to be. I always thought that it would work better as an animated film.”

Source : "1-On-1 with Henry Selick on The Life Aquatic". LatinoReview Interview, movieweb.com. December 20, 2004.
“Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the 'Times' and 'The New Yorker' manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do.”

Source : "Eric Alterman: Pay Anchors Like Journalists Instead Of Hedge Fund Managers" by Gillian Reagan, www.businessinsider.com. March 11, 2010.

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