"Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches..." - Quote by Alan Watts
Any systems approaching perfect self-control also approaches perfect self-frustration.
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“People become concerned with being more humble than other people.”
“When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
“The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.”
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“One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?”
“Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.”
“If you guys throw one more shoe or one more coin, I'm just going to leave my guitar next to my amp and there's going to be massive feed back for an hour.”