"People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices."

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Source : Brad Warner (2015). “Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

Brad Warner

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“I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.
“My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.”
“And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.”
“Everything seems impossible until you see success.”
“All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.”
“I am not dealing with footballers, I am dealing with people. They have fears and worry about failing and making fools of themselves in front of 80,000 people. I have to make them see that without each other they are nothing.”
“Once you get used to being treated like you matter, it's hard to uproot and move somewhere where you don't.”
“When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.”

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