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“The surest signs of spiritual progress
are a lack of concern about spiritual progress and
an absence of anxiety about liberation.”
― Ramesh S. Balsekar

“To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Racconti dell'età del jazz

“In the irrational universe of demanded spontaneity, the power of state reaches beyond the prohibition of acts contrary to society, assigning itself the task of prescribing the citizen's thoughts and convictions. To quote Revel's concise conclusion, 'C'est dans les sociétiés totalitaires que l'Etat se charge de 'donner un sens' à la vie des êtres' ['In totalitarian societies the state assumes the task of giving life a meaning']. Thus original thought becomes treason, and life becomes a hell of a particular kind.”
― Paul Watzlawick, Münchhausen's Pigtail, or Psychotherapy & "Reality"

“When Paul announced himself in a rather formal way to the secretary, he said simply, “I am Watzlawick.” She suspected he was a new psychiatric patient showing up for an appointment at the wrong time, and she interpreted his introduction as, “I am not Slavic.”
― Paul Watzlawick, Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution