"Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things."

-- James Freeman Clarke

#Roots Quotes #Doe Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.”
“Since shotguns are not military weapons, your local sporting goods dealer will have good information about them, as long as you aren't black, Spanish, or a white freak.”
“Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.”
“I don't think men experience the embargo on channeling the autobiography in their literature.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.”
“We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after #â€Ž death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of #â€Ž dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.82, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.”
“In the USA, we learn "art history" as Western art history, and the history of Asian, or African art is a special case; we learn politics by examining our own government system, and consider other systems special cases, and the same is true of philosophy.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.

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