""Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.""

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Source : Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.55, Image

Anthony de Mello

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“There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.”
“I find that I end up liking songs if I really have an idea of something I wat to write about-some problem in my life or something I want to work through; if I don't have something like that at the root of the song, then I think I end up not caring about it as much. I gravitate towards some kind of concept or idea or situation that I want to write about. Very often I have to write, rewrite and come at it from an opposite angle...and I end up writing the opposite song that I thought I was going to write.”

Source : "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.
“In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.”

Source : Twitter post from May 14, 2011
“The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sunâ€™s energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer. Brian Swimme”
“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis, David Peters Corbett (1994). “The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature”, p.183, Taylor & Francis
“The poison leaves bit by bit, not all at once. Be patient. You are healing.”

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