Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
David LynchRead
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
Interpretation
Memory is subjective and can be shaped by personal perception.
This quote by David Lynch highlights the idea that our memories are often reconstructed rather than accurate recordings of past events. It suggests that the way we perceive and remember events can be influenced by our emotions, experiences, and personal narratives, emphasizing a subjective approach to reality over objective truths.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the reliability of eyewitness testimony in court.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
In today’s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
What am I now, Alai?" "Still good." "At what?" "At--anything. There's a million soldiers who'd follow you to the end of the universe." "I don't want to go to the end of the universe." "So where do you want to go? They'll follow you." I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
If we are allowed to do experiments on monkeys because we are superior to them in a certain way, then someone who is superior to me is allowed to do experiments on me.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote.
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