"Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip."

-- Thubten Yeshe

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“I think we live in a world where "the normal," is just a cut that each society creates for itself, but leaves out a number of situations, thoughts, and events as part of what we catalog as normal.”
“One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must do exceeds their capabilities, the result is anxiety. When what they must do falls short of their capabilities, the result is boredom. But when the match is just right, the results can be glorious. This is the essence of flow.”
“Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.”
“As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.”
“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage
“Basically what my mom told me - I was extremely shy, I didn't have any girlfriends 'til I was 21 - my mom would see me suffering and tell me, "Just focus on your school, study very hard, and some day you will be successful and you can use all the resources that you have to a dating advantage." Ultimately, I took that advice and turned it into dating sites.”
“As a result of Obamacare, we are becoming something of a part-time employment country.”

Source : "Oct. 20: Benjamin Netanyahu, Jack Lew, Chuck Schumer, Tom Coburn, Chuck Todd, David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Maria Bartiromo, Andrea Mitchell". Political roundtable, www.nbcnews.com. October 20, 2013.
“It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.”

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