European smoker at a restaurant: "Do you have an ass tray?"

Gotta love accents.

Satyagraha is not passive resistance or weakness, but direct action, the purpose being to confront an opponent with the demand that he make a choice. It assumes the oppressor can change over to your way of thinking. You too learn, by examining your own motives, whether they are worthwhile or not. It ends in mutual liberation.

- M J B, Ganesh

I find that for Asians and for the middle-aged-upwards, a calm mind is essential to happiness. It's the mask of well-being.

What makes more sense:

Love is how you spend your time
or
Time is how you spend your love

?

"It's true that men - they respond to beauty... it doesn't end for them, this... concern with beauty as a physical actuality in the world - and that's clearly imprisoning and it infantilizes... but it's true... "

- ZS

Don't worry about being interesting. Be interested.

"Hello" comes from an abbreviated Hungarian phrase, which approximately means can you hear me? The assistant of Alexander Graham Bell used to say it - he was Hungarian.

Transactional listening - what is he saying?

Real listening - where is he coming from?

We sleep 20% less than we did 100 years ago.

"I love her but I love karate more"

- Masutatsu Oyama (founder of Kyokushin) in Karate Bullfighter