"The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness."

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Spiritual Quotes #Mind Quotes #Attention Quotes

“There's power to: and everyone should have that, but everyone doesn't. Power to play Bach, or tennis, or boccie if you like. And there's power over; and no one should have that, but people do.”
“Lord Salisbury constitutes himself the spokesman of a class, of the class to which he himself belongs, who'toil not neither do they spin'.”

Source : 1883 Speech, 30 Mar.
“Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.”
“He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun”
“If we begin by the conversation that some people shouldn't be encouraged to come to the polls, that does nothing to help us. And just as a practical matter, when we don't encourage voters to come out to the polls, the people who stay home quickest are black and brown folk.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear.”

Source : "Notebook of a Return to the Native Land". Book by Aime Cesaire, 1939.
“The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.”
“Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.”

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