"The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them."

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Ram Dass

#Ego Quotes #Deny Quotes #Preoccupation Quotes

“The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.”
“With climbing you can go to the most beautiful places on the planet and practice. Anywhere there is rock, you can climb.”

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“The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.”

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“I've always been interested in the outsider.”
“If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But as with punishments, they can never help someone develop a *commitment* to a task or action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.32, Simon and Schuster
“A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests that their makers were acquainted with what lay behind the flowering of the Sufi movement in High Asia and so sought to add further dimensions to their garden scenes.”
“We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.”

Source : James Stephens (2015). “Irish Fairy Tales”, p.49, Booklassic
“When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.”

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