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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re…
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I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,…
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I would rather be of clear mind and decision with the wrong club than with an unclear mind and the right club.
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Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind…
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Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their…
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…
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Running is one the best solutions to a clear mind.
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Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as…
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The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious. Mind changes, and as a result, the…
— Byron Katie
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People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a…
— Giambattista Vico
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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
— David Allen
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If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.
— Phil Jackson
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