"So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to enjoy the drama of life, to enjoy the different varieties of people, while you will be growing within yourself."

-- Nirmala Srivastava

#Love Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Wisdom Quotes

“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
“The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.”
“The American heritage was one of individual liberty, personal responsibility and freedom from government ... Unfortunately ... that heritage has been lost. Americans no longer have the freedom to direct their own lives ... Today, it is the government that is free - free to do whatever it wants. There is no subject, no issue, no matter ... that is not subject to legislation.”
“He never leaves my side. And I know he never will.”
“Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”
“Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.”
“The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.”
“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.”

Source : "Gracie goes to schooner school" by Tom Robbins, www.seattlepi.com. May 24, 2007.

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