"You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game."

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Source : Brad Warner (2010). “Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma”, p.70, New World Library

Brad Warner

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“Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.”
“When people sing together, community is created. Together we rejoice, we celebrate, we mourn and we comfort each other. Through music, we reach each others hearts and souls. Music allows us to find a connection.”
“It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.”
“There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.”
“The hardest thing about being in this business is just being able to be yourself. People act like there's this one set of rules to follow to be a pop star and I think, 'Well, you say I'm a pop star, so maybe that's not true.'”
“Anyone can win a slam-dunk contest. The real Superman is dead. He was assassinated by Pat Riley. I'm the Big Cactus now and ready to roll again.”
“Im interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.”
“I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.”

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