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John Selden

"He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat."

Source : John Selden (1800). “The Table-talk: Of John Selden, Esq. Being His Sense of Various Matters of Weight and High Consequence; Relating Especially to Religion and State”, p.75

John Selden

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“Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky.”
“The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you started with. Can any being seriously think that he is going to pass through the infinity of time without ever making another mistake? Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.”

Source : Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.84, Gibbs Smith
“It eats at me. And if it eats at me, I'm going to make sure it eats at (my team).”
“Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening”
“We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.”
“Don't you know? We're connected by an invisible chain. It's very long, very light. But also very strong. It can't rust. Can't break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.”
“The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.”
“Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.”

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