It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
DAVID LYNCHMeditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
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Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.
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The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.
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I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.
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Many things happen that we don’t know the significance of until a little bit later.
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I don’t like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don’t really understand the word ‘irony’ too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it’s much more exalted.
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The world is as you are.
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I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
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The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.
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Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
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Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
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Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.
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Absurdity is what I like most in life.
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The thing about meditation is: you become more and more you.
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If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that’s all you can control. You can’t control any of what’s out there, outside yourself.
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Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I’ve really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.
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