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“ Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going. Hunter S Thompson


“ The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech,
but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious. Samyutta Nikaya I, 163


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“ To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. Jiddu Krishnamurti
“ When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are. … So when you make an effort to eat mindfully…, you find that life is worth much more than you had expected. Chögyam Trungpa
“ What the world doesn’t tell you—because it doesn’t know—is that you cannot become successful. You can only be successful. Don’t let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment Eckhart Tolle
“ The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you. Eckhart Tolle
“ The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. Eckhart Tolle
“ Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” — and find that there is no death. Eckhart Tolle
“ The ego says, I shouldn’t have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more. Eckhart Tolle