"In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom. The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature."

-- Sheng-yen

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“Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.”
“Iraq is not about oil.”
“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.”
“Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.”

Source : Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”
“In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell (2013). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.564, Courier Corporation
“As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?”

Source : "Arnold’s Language Barrier", www.motherjones.com. September 8, 2003.
“One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.”
“Death is my lover and he wants to move in.”

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