Mayra Cisneros
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From the unreal lead me to the Real. From darkness lead me to Light. From death lead me to Immortality.
“Some of them taught that all worldly things are unreal, because [they are] a result of the perverted views. Only that which transcends worldly things and can be called “emptiness,” being the absence of them all, is real. Others said that everything, both worldly and supramundane, both absolute and relative, both Samsara and Nirvana, is fictitious and unreal and that all we have got is a number of verbal expressions to which nothing real corresponds.”
― The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World
― The Diamond Sutra: Transforming the Way We Perceive the World
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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“Consciousness naturally resists anything unconscious and unknown. I have already pointed out the existence among primitive peoples of what anthropologists call “misoneism,” a deep and superstitious fear of novelty. The primitives manifest all the reactions of the wild animal against untoward events. But “civilized” man reacts to new ideas in much the same way, erecting psychological barriers to protect himself from the shock of facing something new.”
― Man and His Symbols
― Man and His Symbols
“One characteristic of a lot of entrepreneurs is that they’re relatively unemployable. I don’t think I was the best employee at CNET, honestly. I was really focused on my own projects, really into WordPress.”
― The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful
― The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful
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