"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Life Quotes #Spiritual Quotes #Peace Quotes

“Poetry is one of the most fugitive arts: it can be assigned to memory, taken and hidden in the mind, smuggled into smoky cabin back rooms, recited there and then conveyed only by speech to another person. It is therefore the most likely to survive colonization.”

Source : Eavan Boland (2008). “Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion : Poetry, Prose, Interviews, Reviews and Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated
“A man is accountable to no person for his doings.”

Source : "James Otis's speech on the Writs of assistance" edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing, William Tudor, Hart, Albert Bushnell,.
“Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.”
“I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.”
“The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.”
“So, to say Obama is progress is saying that heâ€™s the first black person that is qualified to be president. Thatâ€™s not black progress. Thatâ€™s white progress. Thereâ€™s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Letâ€™s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.”
“Dancing, is, for the most part, attended with many amorous smiles, wanton compliments, unchaste kisses, scurrilous songs and sonnets, effeminate music, lust provoking attire, ridiculous love pranks, all which savor only of sensuality, of raging fleshly lusts. Therefore, it is wholly to be abandoned of all good Christians.”
“Try to be accurate about stuff.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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