"The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilÃ une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilÃ une chose!"

-- Ezra Pound

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“When the sun sets like fire, I will think of you, when the moon casts its light, I'll remember, too, if a soft rain falls gently, I'll stand in this place, recalling the last time, I saw your kind face. Good fortune go with you, to your journey's end, let the waters run calmly, for you, my dear friend.”

Source : Brian Jacques (2004). “Loamhedge: A Novel of Redwall”, p.91, Penguin
“But I should be very sorry if an interpretation founded on a most conjectural scientific hypothesis were to get fastened to the text in Genesis... The rate of change of scientific hypothesis is naturally much more rapid than that of Biblical interpretations, so that if an interpretation is founded on such an hypothesis, it may help to keep the hypothesis above ground long after it ought to be buried and forgotten.”
“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
“I've always thought of myself as being a warrior. When you actually have a battle, it's better than when you don't know who to fight.”
“The act of naming is the great and solemn consolation of mankind”
“Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.”

Source : Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.49, Open Road Media
“Itâ€™s hard to feel desire when you donâ€™t feel desirable”
“The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That's why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.”

Source : "From Big Data to Deep Data" by Otto Scharmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.

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