"Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything."

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Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.41, Macmillan

Bodhidharma

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“Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.”

Source : Eric Nicol, Alan Walker (1972). “Still a Nicol: the best of Eric Nicol”
“You can't say you love your country and hate your government.”
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. No other practice so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one -surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”

Source : "The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; The comforters; The only problem; The driver's seat; Memento mori".
“In each life there comes at least one moment, which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void.”
“Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code...”
“Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.”

Source : "Les Krantz". The New York Art Review, 1988.
“And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!”
“Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.”

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