"The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. Itâ€™s more a matter of subtracting energy from the equation in order not to barf the thoughts up and start chewing them over again."

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Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.43, New World Library

Brad Warner

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“The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown”
“Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.”
“From the pain comes the dream. From the dream comes the vision. From the vision come the people. From the people comes the power. From this power come the change.”
“I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy”
“Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.”
“The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.”

Source : Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.157, Beacon Press
“It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, - to love Him, the spring of spirits.”

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