"This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on."

-- Eknath Easwaran

#Meditation Quotes #Principles Quotes

“In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened to be the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century. I would like to think that I could emulate at least his modesty - his refusal to exaggerate his perception of himself and his place in the larger scheme of things - even if my work never compares with his in its importance.”
“A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
“Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.”
“I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.”
“And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.”
“I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?”
“I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.”
“Count the deed, not the thought.”

Source : Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.107, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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