H. W. L. Poonja Quotes
Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
Quotes to Explore
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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In the heartlands of Islam, from Saudi mansions to ISIS dungeons, there are still slaves, laboring, beaten, bought, sold, raped and disposed of in Mohammed's name.
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When the first American steps on the red dust of Mars, it's going to be because of computer scientists.
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What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
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The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.
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To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.
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Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
