"In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their lifeâ€¦Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination â€“ making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish."

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Source : FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Jan 12, 2012

Thomas Cahill

#Swimming Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Noble Quotes

“When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen.”
“There is a wealth of information built into us ... tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells ... without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
“I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life.”
“I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.”
“But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.”
“I have worked very hard on â€˜Detective Byomkesh Bakshy”
“As an actor, if you were to simplify what acting really is, it's about letting go.”
“I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

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