"Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss."

-- Sathya Sai Baba

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“I think that at its best, painting can be an act of juggling perceptions, a hall of mirrors. And it can be a bit confusing and scattering. But as the artist, as the man behind the velvet rope who controls the smoke and the mirrors and the way that things move in the painted space, what I want to do is to try my best to be a good witness.”
“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”
“Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid”
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests”

Source : "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.
“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldnâ€™t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?”

Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta
“When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.”
“God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.”

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