"There is only one thing in your life YOU can be sure of. That one thing is this moment, now. The last moment has gone forever. The next moment has not come. YOU can become fully conscious only when you are living in the moment. To begin to live in the moment you have to know it exists and understand it. To understand it you have to observe it in relation to yourself and in relation to life. When you understand it, when you become conscious, you will see it is all that exists. To see this is to glimpse reality."

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

Barry Long

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“Every vice has its excuse ready.”
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
“Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.”
“Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in which these aspects stand to each other.”

Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”
“That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.”

Source : Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.36, Hachette UK
“I try to avoid political ties.”
“Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.”

Source : "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.
“It is a good thing to let someone else's vision take over, and it has always been a good thing in the end.”

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