Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without … - William S. Burroughs

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I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

William S. Burroughs

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Byproduct, Conflict, Purpose, Victory, War

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I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

Causes, Connection, Mean, Pain, Writing

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Faces, Reality, Refuse, Time, Way

It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

Art, Make, Mean, Originally, Paintings, Writing

There are no innocent bystanders.

Bystanders, Innocent

Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.

Christian, Firsts, Tell, War, Wars, Wrong

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My underwear is my own person buisness.

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I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just an extension of me being old-fashioned.

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Pearl S. Buck

He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

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Sri Chinmoy

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.

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Mary Catherine Bateson

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

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