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Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army — and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot.
Kitchen Confidential
Anthony Bourdain
In his essay *Between Experience and Imagination,* from the book *Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences,* Daniel Dor articulates a new general theory of language that positions imagination at its very core:
Language is specifically designed to allow its speakers to communicate direcly with their interlocutors’ imaginations.
Origins of Culture: Collective Consciousness - Course Content
Bonnitta Roy
In sum: you can best achieve success at meditation by not pursuing success, and achieving this success may mean caring less about success, at least as success is conventionally defined. If this sounds unbearably paradoxical, maybe you should quit reading here, because this won’t be the last time we find paradox in Buddhist practice or Buddhist teachings. Then again, there’s paradoxical stuff in modern physics (an electron is both a particle and a wave), and modern physics works fine. So you might as well keep reading.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
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