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bullet Real art cannot be an act of manipulation or marketing, but only an act of faith. Faith that great art is something remarkable. Faith that someone, somewhere, sometime might make the effort to understand what an artist has to offer -- and not merely seek what is already known. -  Joshua Fineberg
 
bullet Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, determination, and hard work make the difference. -- Calvin Coolidge
 
bullet Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
bullet Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -- Carl Jung
 
bullet Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw
 
bullet Resistance drains energy.
Acceptance saves it.
Cheerfulness sustains it. -- Anonymous
 
bullet Violate Propriety -- God. 
 
bullet Impulsiveness is brutal and destructive because it is unconscious of others and of the world. Spontaneity is full of grace, for it is granted immediately through consciousness to the reality of the environment.
 
bullet Why cut off a part of human potential in order to find plentitude? What kind of plentitude would it be if it did not include the totality of the human experience?
 
bullet If everything proceeds from consciousness, then no one action is more worthy then any other. The desire for God is a desire; the desire to renounce desire is in itself, a desire. It is therefore impossible to follow a spiritual or mystical path while eradicating desire. For tantrikas, desire is the mark of the endless creativity of consciousness. In cutting it off, we cut off an important part of our consciousness.
 
bullet Our difficulty in being present comes principally from the fact that we do not accept reality as it is because we see neither its beauty nor its depth. We wrongly imagine that life as we reorchestrate it is more worthy of being lived. Hence we lose considerable energy wanting to transform reality so that is corresponds to our plans, ideals, and beliefs. Unfortunately reality is not made to confirm itself to our desires. Thus do we lose a lot of time in this absurd occupation. That is the chief difficulty in living a more freely flowing, fluid life, one in which reality is no longer frozen by the mind. The mind is used to, and marvelously capable of, moving quickly and harmonizing with the flow of life, which itself also has great mobility. Every time we intervene in an attempt to cut off a sensation or an emotion that does not correspond to our desires, we paralyze, we block the natural flow of life. Let’s take an example: we meet someone whom we are attracted to. From the first moments, our mind will set itself in motion, get itself going, and we will form a strategy, a plan, expectations, and hopes. Fears will immediately come into play. The fear of being wronged or deceived, of being abandoned, will surge up very quickly. We have not yet had the time to develop and real intimacy with this person and yet already our whole system has been put in a position of overabundance and failure. The whole energetic arena of the encounter is already a minefield of strategies, which are all the more disconcertingly surprising and distracting because there are two of us elaborating them. It can be said that this whole conceptual structure will minimize our chances of a true meeting, of a true connection.