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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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