Lew Welch quotes
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“Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.”
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“The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.”
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“Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?”
-- Lew Welch
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“Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being. ”
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“Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.”
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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