Mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it & mistake it for who you are. It then becomes the egoic mind and takes over your whole life.

Here is the key. End the delusion of time. Time & mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind & it stops - unless you choose to use it. You choose to use it.

Time is an illusion & it's not precious at all. What you perceive as precious I'd not time but the one point that is out of time; the Now. Now is the only thing that is. It is all there is.

Life is Now. There was never a time when your life was not now. The Now is the only point that can take you beyond the confines of the mind.

Satori - a moment of no mind & total presence. Be grateful when it comes, even briefly.

Whenever & wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are one and the same ? Would it be there without your presence ? Go deeply into it. Find out

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My life is ruled by four W's: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad because that means they aren't entitled.

Silicon Valley builds its bridges on abundance. Abundant bits of information floating out there, writing great programs to process it, then giving people a lot of useful tools to use it.

Good candidates can arrive at the binary search tree as the right path in a few minutes, and then take 10-15 minutes working through the rest of the problem and the other roadblocks I toss out. But occasionally I get a candidate who 'intuitively understands' trees and can visualize the problem I'm presenting.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

New York City life is different from all other city life. It's incredibly relentless and fast, and I think when I first got here, it was incredibly exciting. It was also so hot. I didn't know New York got so hot. I'm not a fan of the heat!

Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible. But that trait is not something I've worked on, it's part of me.

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Failure to pass TPP sends a big signal. The United States is backing off, backing away. That will create a huge void here.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I make it my business to see or do something cultural in every place I go to. If you don't, you'll get into a state of constant despair.

As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.

Well, I happen to have a love of vocal reproduction devices.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

It is not easy to dress well.

Manipulation can give you anything in life you want, if you can afford it.

Both should share the same concept of what a relationship means and the same energy to believe in a monogamous relationship.

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.