"You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it."

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Source : Brian Morton (2007). “Starting Out in the Evening”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Brian Morton

#Years Quotes #Joy Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves.”

Source : Tarthang Tulku (1981). “Hidden mind of freedom”, Dharma Pub
“I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.”
“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.”
“...I returned to walking up the mountain, and there, in the dim asexual beauty of reddening dawns and skies that firmed to blue, I discovered my real and appropriate strengths.”
“I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.”
“There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me.”
“Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.”
“I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?”

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