"I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist."
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"The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is."
"Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help."
"Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady."
"I gotta big mouth, I can't help it, I talk from my heart, I'm real, whatever comes comes. But my controversy problem, it's not my fault, I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just make money off of everybody. So I go down paths that haven't been traveled before and I usually mess up, but I learn, I come back stronger."
"I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time."
"A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life."
"A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to."
"The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!"
"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
"This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction."
"Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did."
"The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object."
"So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly."
"From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them."
"When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing."
"It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is this. We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now. Similarly we have simply to throw out all the age-long sanskaras [innate tendencies] which are inside us. When all of them have been given up, the Self will shine alone."
"Knowing you don't have much time left changes things. You get kind of philosophical. And you figure things out-more like, they figure themselves out-and everything gets real clear."
"I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others."
"People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship."