"Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes."

-- Joseph Campbell

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“There's some advice for the next generation. If there's a dream in your heart, never let anyone tell you you've got no talent. Get out there, embarrass yourself, and prove to the world you've got no talent. And then give up. 'Cause not everyone can be a genius like me.”
“Then it dawned on me that no one else was going to believe in me until I believed in myself.”

Source : David J Schwartz (2016). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.11, Random House
“I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God”
“Nowadays most people wear black most of the time anyway: go to a literary party and one would imagine everyone there was in perpetual mourning for their lives.”
“The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.”
“continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring. ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.”

Source : Ray Strachey, Eleanor Florence Rathbone (1936). “Our freedom and its results”
“I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.”
“Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2007). “Varieties of Disturbance: Stories”, p.191, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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