"Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice."

-- Jack Kornfield

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“Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.”
“If you want, I can carry youâ€”â€ â€œIâ€™m fine,â€ she said shortly. â€œLetâ€™s go.â€ Heâ€™d said that wrong. He should have said, â€œI want to carry you.”
“The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.”

Source : Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”
“Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.”
“The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail.”

Source : Joe Gores (2009). “Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon”, p.103, Vintage
“If you compare my character to the others, they were sexy with designer clothes. I had the nerdy outfit.”
“The Josh Brolin character in that movie [Hail, Caesar!], he's given a choice to leave, to do something where he wouldn't have to work as hard. And he'd rather work and deal with the madness of what he's doing because it thrills him, because it gives him meaning.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.”

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