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"Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music."

"I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life."

"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

"Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub."

"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."

"A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites."
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"The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled."


"Meditation is a journey from negative-mindset to positive-mindset. It is a means to stay positive and radiate positive energy."


"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."


"Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality."


"There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware activities of the mirror neurons, we are under the trap of negative empathy. The negative empathy generates attachments. Out of these attachments suffering follows. Negative empathy is a kind of reaction to a situation, whereas positive empathy is internal response of peace love and tranquility.... In positive empathy, your deep tranquility, joy and peace activates the mirror neurons of the others, whereas in negative empathy your mirror neurons are activated by the disturbance of others."


"The path of nonviolence is the path of respect. It is respect towards every being. It is the path of awakening the consciousness of every being."
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