"Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience."

-- Tilopa

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“It's pretty exciting to take real people living in the real world, their opinions, and have people have to react to that. As opposed to their perceptions of what people are thinking, which are often very different.”
“in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.”
“The universe reveals its secrets to those that dare to follow their hearts.”
“Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.”
“I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that.”
“The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Critical Writings of Ford Madox Ford”, p.76, U of Nebraska Press
“As an artist, it's possible to get tired of yourself.”
“I've been asked to pose for Playboy.”

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