"Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen."

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Source : W. P. Kinsella (1999). “Shoeless Joe”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

W. P. Kinsella

#Moments Quotes #Significant Quotes #Significant Moments Quotes

“One of the great mysteries of our current state of consciousness is how we can live in a world where absolutely nothing is fixed, and yet perceive a world of 'fixedness.' But once we start to see reality more as it is, we realize that nothing is permanent, so how could the future be fixed? How could we live in anything but a world of continual possibility? The realization allows us to feel more alive.”
“In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law.”
“Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.”

Source : FaceBook post by Douglas Rushkoff from Aug 23, 2013
“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
“We can afford to follow Him to failure. Faith dares to fail. The resurrection and the judgment will demonstrate before all worlds who won and who lost. We can wait.”
“To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.”

Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks
“In short-to overstate the point only slightly-because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.”
“When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.”

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