"At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but 'silent' does not mean closed. The silent mind is an alert, awakened mind; a mind seeking the nature of reality."

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Source : Thubten Yeshe, Lama Yeshe, Josh Bartok, Nicholas Ribush (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

Thubten Yeshe

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“My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.”
“I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.”
“Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim.”

Source : "Negligent parents, lawbreaking kids" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. August 22, 2013.
“It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.”
“But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.”

Source : "Davey Havok of AFI" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 6, 2009.
“At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.”
“The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.2296, e-artnow
“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?”

Source : Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 10), 1956.

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