"I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe."

-- Dennis Lehane

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“The longest journey Is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being." page 58 The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them." page 62”
“I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.”
“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”
“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”
“When someone saves your life and gives you life, there is gratitude and humility; there is a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance in life that maybe, you did or did not deserve.”
“TV is what sells your product.”
“I don't like allegory.”
“Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.”

Source : Jean Smith (2007). “The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Harmony

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