Stephen Gilligan quotes

“When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?”
-- Stephen Gilligan

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“The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection) refers to the optimal distance point, where you're close enough to connect well and far enough to enjoy your own space.”
-- Stephen Gilligan

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“When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.”
-- Stephen Gilligan

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“If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.”

“Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Jun 30, 2010

“I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Yeah, I want to be liked, obviously. Everybody does.”

Source : "Milwaukee Talks: QB Aaron Rodgers, May 2008". Interview with Jason Wilde, onmilwaukee.com. May 23, 2008.

“There's no committee that says, 'This is the type of person who can change the world - and you can't.' Realizing that anyone can do it is the first step. The next step is figuring out how you're going to do it.”

“My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.”

“I'd like my next head coach to be winning oriented. We would consider anyone that we think is right.”

“The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.”

“Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.”

“There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.”