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"You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

"You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been."

"It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye."

"One other thing I learned from working in a company was that the majority of people in the world have no problem following orders. They're actually happy to be told what to do. They might complain, but that's not how they really feel. They just grumble out of habit. If you told them to think for themselves, and make their own decisions and take responsibility for them, they'd be clueless."

"There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up."

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

"There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream."
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"One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease."

"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"LSD stands out for learning to slow down."

"The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully."

"To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath."

"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."

"Let the moment be memorable."

"Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail."

"The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness."

"Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world."
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