"The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering"

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Tilopa

#Meditation Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Causes Quotes

“In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.”
“A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.”

Source : Charles Fort (2013). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.3, Courier Corporation
“As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.”
“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.”
“There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.”

Source : "The End of the Erase Errata Era". pitchfork.com. October 16, 2015.
“Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.”
“Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's ***** every day.”
“There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.”

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