"a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only the result of a naive faith in causality - the notion that A in the past caused B in the present, which will cause C in the future, when actually A, B, and C are all part of a pattern that can be truly understood only by opening the doors of perception and experiencing it... in this moment... this supreme moment... this Kairos."

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Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.163, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Tom Wolfe

#Past Quotes #Doors Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.”
“Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.”
“Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do.”

Source : "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.
“A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.”
“Anything under size five isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts.”
“In the 1970s, Washington women lawyers were getting organized. Grouping together gave us courage. And we overcame.”
“Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”

Source : Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”
“All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?”

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