"Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there's no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are - as soon as we stop pretending we're small or unholy."

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Source : Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.128, Penguin

Bo Lozoff

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“I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.”

Source : Peter Benchley (2008). “Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea”, p.49, Yearling
“Without adventure civilization is in full decay.”
“When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.”
“Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.”
“Poetry restores language by breaking it, and I think that much contemporary writing restores fantasy, as a genre of writing in contrast to a genre of commodity or a section in a bookstore, by breaking it. Michael Moorcock revived fantasy by prying it loose from morality; writers like Jeff VanderMeer, Stepan Chapman, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Nathan Ballingrud are doing the same by prying fantasy away from pedestrian writing, with more vibrant and daring styles, more reflective thinking, and a more widely broadcast spectrum of themes.”
“Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.”

Source : John Ross Macduff (1855). “The mind of Jesus”, p.59
“After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.”

Source : Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.
“Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or the photographers. If they say they can't remember the names but they recognize the work, I'll say that's bullshit because if you were selling mobile phones, you'd know all about the phones' features and tariffs.”

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