"Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight."

-- Ajahn Brahm

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“I am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.”

Source : "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.
“My profession brought me in contact with various minds. Earnest, serious discussion on the condition of woman enlivened my business room; failures of banks, no dividends from railroads, defalcations of all kinds, public and private, widows and orphans and unmarried women beggared by the dishonesty, or the mismanagement of men, were fruitful sources of conversation; confidence in man as a protector was evidently losing ground, and women were beginning to see that they must protect themselves.”
“There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.”

Source : Quoted in Christopher Butler, After the Wake: An Essay on the Contemporary Avant-Garde (1980)
“Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.”

Source : "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.
“I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.”
“It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.”

Source : Matthew Henry (1866). “Directions for daily communion with God, in 3 discourses, and The communicant's companion”, p.81
“I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? Whatâ€™s the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.”
“The longer one lives, the more mysterious life seems.”

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