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Quotes by Swedish Authors
"Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost.Enlightenment is more like an experiencing. It is a process. It begins, but it never ends. You enter it, but you can never possess it. It is a deep merging and melting with Existence. It is a oneness. It is like a drop dropping into the Ocean."
"When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is."
"Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves."
"Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys."
"What do you want to do with your life, then? is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference."
"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."
"In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I listen to what my intuition and to what Existence within myself wants in this moment. Through listening within in this way, an answer often comes in the form of a creative and authentic impulse to say or do something or simply being silent until Existence is ready to respond."
"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream."
"Love makes you feel at home in existence."
"There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life."
"People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do."
"I just feel I shouldn't work too much, because there are so many other things to do."
"More must be done in concrete terms in order to promote the cause of disarmament."
"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here."
"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year."
"I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying."
"I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things."
"I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels."
"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside."
"Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart...and metastasizes, sending its dark roots through the body to raze all that stands in its way. Love is chaste and pure. Love is banal....No, hatred has infinitely more possibilities."
"You can lie in any language on earth, and body language is no exception."
"I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow."
"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment."
"When a person works towards a goal, he or she immediately creates two possible scenarios or outcomes; namely success and failure."
"Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person."
"God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence."
"I do not overlook the fact that the appearance of these new, free nations in the European political community not only celebrates the return of the prodigal son but also creates new sources of friction here and there."
"Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness."
"The developing countries must be able to take a more active part in trade negotiations, through technical assistance and support from the developed countries."
"All statistics have outliers."
"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."
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