"As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything."

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Source : Walpola Rahula (2007). “What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Walpola Rahula

#Long Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.”

Source : "The Fog Machine of War" by Chelsea Manning, www.nytimes.com. June 14, 2014.
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”
“Cops never took anything on faith, and disbelieved every story that was told them on principle until and unless they could confirm that the story was fact in all its essentials, and even then remained wary and unconvinced. Cop shops bred skeptics. Skeptics cherished few illusions about human nature, and therefore were seldom disappointed.”
“Most of the music I've listened to or grew up listening to - a lot of it at least - is instrumental stuff.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.”
“I'm usually always thinking about the cons.”
“We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.”

Source : John Trudell (1994). “Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation”
“But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.”

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