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‘That word means something else, you know,’ his father had told him once, when Mission had spoken of revolution. ‘It also means to go around and around. To revolve. One revolution, and you get right back to where you started.’
“One of the best characteristics of the Tibetan people is their complete tolerance of other creeds. Their monastic theocracy has never sought the conversion of infidels.”
― Seven Years in Tibet
― Seven Years in Tibet
“the conscious self doesn’t create thoughts; it receives them.”
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
― Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
“Being a good person is a very important part of my identity, but being a genuinely good person is time-consuming and complicated.”
― Hyperbole and a Half
― Hyperbole and a Half
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
― 1984
― 1984
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