"Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors."

-- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”

Source : William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.180, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.”
“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
“Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will.”
“Take away someoneâ€™s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someoneâ€™s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.”
“I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.”
“People only talk about me and sweaters because I don't give them anything else to talk about.”
“There is no waiting and no delayed gratification because yoga is both the means and the result, and the seed of all that is possible is present at the very beginning. This experience of stillness is possible in the first ten minutes of your first yoga class. It is possible in this very breath.”

Source : Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.6, Macmillan

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