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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series…
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The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the…
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Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all.…
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Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
— John Dewey
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In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no…
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This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind…
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I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth…
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the…
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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
— William Butler Yeats
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