

“I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas. Kennedy himself was 9/10ths the way around the clock or he wouldn't have accepted such an enervating and enfeebling job -- meaning President of the United States of America. How can I be concerned with the murder of one man when almost all men, plus females, are taken from cribs as babies and almost immediately thrown into the masher?”
― Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993
― Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993

“Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Often it’s the adjustment of our expectations, rather than reality itself, that’s the hurdle we have to leap. When”
― The Conscious Parent
― The Conscious Parent

“Life is to be experienced, not fought against, run from, or engaged halfheartedly. Though we may wish to make changes in the future, to be conscious is to be with an experience as it’s unfolding, rather than thinking about how we would like to change it. Taking charge of our life so that we alter the quality of our experiences in the future comes after an experience.”
― The Conscious Parent
― The Conscious Parent

“Why can’t parents see their children’s pain?â€� “I’ve had to ask myself the same thing. It’s because we haven’t seen our own.”
― When the Body Says No
― When the Body Says No
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