I've always liked Playboy; I think it's very tasteful.
[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
On sorrow floats laughter.
People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.
Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead. Memories are like battles, and battles can go one way or the other. You can stand and fight, no matter what pains run from you wounds; or you can turn tail and run, knowing then that the enemy will follow and without mercy hunt you down. We had so many dreams as children. Where do they all go when we grow? Are they swallowed up by the mundane things of everyday life? Or do we lose them, leave them behind us in the dust, for new children to find and take up?
Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict,". . . "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
I studied Sanskrit for many years, and I've got all the coursework for my Ph. D. And a lot of what's going on in American Yoga is just made-up stuff. Smart people, even good people, Western therapists, Yoga therapists and other things, Western healthcare practitioners who love Asana and say, "Let's make up yoga therapy. "