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reality people sun
There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them. Carlos Fuentes
real reality don-juan
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. Carlos Castaneda
reality ordinary shallow
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.
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Things are only real after one has learned to agree on their realness. What took place this evening, for instance, cannot possibly be real to you, because no one could agree with you about it. 'Do you mean that you didn't see what happened?'. Of course I did. But I don't count. I am the one who's lying to you, remember?
reality historical normal
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
real lying self
That's your doing. Now in order to affect that doing I am going to recommend that you learn another doing... It may hook you to another doing and then you may realize that both doings are lies, unreal, and that to hinge yourself to either one is a waste of time, because the only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. To arrive at that being is the note-doing of the self
greed missing curiosity
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do. Agnes de Mille
greed copies refuse
Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Aaron Swartz
greed soul extravagance
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton
greedy lack poor
The poor lack much, but the greedy more Swiss Proverb
greed guy soul
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. Ben Nicholson
greed consciousness consumerism
It is partly to avoid consciousness of greed that we prefer to associate with those who are at least as greedy as we ourselves. Those who consume much less are a reproach. Charles Horton Cooley
greed too-much enough
having too much is never enough. Arianna Huffington
greed world rich
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. B. C. Forbes
greedy ends fearful
No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end. Bill Gurley
published sf type waiting wondering writer
Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've made it as a published writer of the type of SF that I want to write and read, but I'm still waiting for that big breakthrough.
publishers time writers
Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
publish scientists speaks united
Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators. Neil deGrasse Tyson
publish saves works
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue that would go to the gruel-eating authors, but because it saves the 50 percent that would go to the publishers. Mark Helprin
publishers
Textbook publishers don't even bother to advertise at their conventions. Peter Brimelow
publishers
Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.
published
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. Isabel Allende
publishing
I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now. Nick Earls
publishers time
There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another one. Denise Mina