"When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for ten minutes or even five minutes - utilizing those few moments when you find yourself willing or even desiring just to take a break from the daily grind to observe your mind rather than drifting off into daydreams."

-- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

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“Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.”
“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.”
“Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God”
“Politicians, like bombers, seldom see their victims.”
“I'm not anti conceptual art. I don't think painting must be revived, exactly. Art reflects life, and our lives are full of algorithms, so a lot of people are going to want to make art that's like an algorithm. But my language is painting, and painting is the opposite of that. There's something primal about it. It's innate, the need to make marks. That's why, when you're a child, you scribble.”

Source : "Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies'" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.
“So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a first... In that night I felt expansion, as if the world was branching out in shoots and growing faster than the eye could see. I felt smallness, how the earth divided into bits and kept dividing. I felt stars.”
“Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning”
“If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.”

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