"Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray."

-- Rajneesh

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“I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.376, Dell
“You can be slum-born and slum-bred and still achieve something worth while; but it is a stupid inverted snobbishness to be proud of it. If one had a right to be proud of anything, it would be of a continued decent tradition back of one.”

Source : Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”
“The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension.”
“I hate wack niggas, I should really slap niggas.”
“One-half plus one-half does not equal one; one whole plus one whole equals relational wholeness.”
“We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.”

Source : "The White Stripes: Getting to Know the Most Interesting Band in Music Today". Interview with Jim Jarmusch, www.whitestripes.net. 2003.
“The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.”
“Sometimes I long so much to do landscape, just as one would go for a long walk to refresh oneself, and in all of nature, in trees for instance, I see expression and a soul.”

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