"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple."
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"I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him."
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"You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be."
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"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."
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"I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing."
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"When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."
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"When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden."
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"We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."
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"If youre going to be sexy in a photo, youd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy."
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"I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking."
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"When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision."
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"I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more."
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"I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously."
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"Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don’t even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality."
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"I do a job I really, really love and I kind of have fun with. People think you can't be grown up unless you're moaning about your job."
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"I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding."
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"I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave."
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"I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in."
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"Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted."
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"You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent."
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