Quotes
Authors
Eckhart Tolle
"Joy is uncaused and arises from within as the joy of Being. It is an essential part of the inner state of peace, the state that has been called the peace of God. It is your natural state, not something that you need to work hard for or struggle to attain." --
Source : Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (1987). “Selected Melanie Klein”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
Eckhart Tolle
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“I keep reverting (to Duke Ellington), he to me is the greatest ever and my favorite jazz philosopher, as such.”
Source : Interview by the "Chicago SEED", November, 1968.
“I first met (Bob Dylan) in '65. We've had a friendship for a long time. He decided to play on a record I was making in New York. We were just friends playing together.”
“Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach”
“There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog.”
“Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.”
“Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.”
“Your only shame is to have shame.”
“A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.”
