Leventhal Sar Quotes

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

In the same way that Americans now look back with horrified disbelief on the evils of slavery and the 'separate but equal' era of racial segregation, many years from now our children and grandchildren will reflect on this time in history and wonder how and why we ever chose to criminalize marijuana usage and homosexual marriage while poisoning our natural world in the name of economics. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

It didn't take long for us to realize, though, that we hadn't eaten since the eggs twenty-four hours earlier. Eating was the one desire of the flesh we hadn't fulfilled.
I remembered seeing a McDonald's near the entrance of our hotel, and since I needed a little exercise I offered to dart out for some safe and predictable American food, which would tide us over till the dinner we had reservations for that night. Our blood sugar was too low to comb the city, looking for a place to have a quick lunch.
I knew Marlboro Man was a ketchup-only guy when it comes to burgers, and that's what I ordered when I approached the counter: "Hamburger, ketchup only, please."
"Sar…you only want kitchipinmite?" the innocent clerk replied.
"Excuse me?"
"Kitchipinmite?"
"Uh…pardon?"
"You jis want a hamburger with kitchipinmite?"
"Uh…what?" I had no idea what the poor girl was saying.
It took me about ten minutes to realize the poor Australian woman behind the counter was merely repeating and confirming my order: kitchip (ketchup) inmite (and meat). It was a traumatic ordering experience.
I returned to the hotel room, and Marlboro Man and I dug into our food like animals.
"This tastes a little funny," my new husband said.
I concurred. The mite was not right. It didn't taste like America. ~ Ree Drummond

I always have my reasons, even when I don't know what they are. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The NYPD knew Sar Gedeon as a human drug lord. If they'd come in here now, they would have found him dead, sporting Spock ears, a cauterized hole in his torso, no heart, and a hoofprint branded into his chest. I'd like to be a fly on the wall for that investigation. ~ Lisa Shearin

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

无惧无急 (The fearless do not hurry.) ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Suffering occurs when love's two hands pull your soul in two directions. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Dissociation is the ultimate form of human response to chronic developmental stress, because patients with dissociative disorders report the highest frequency of childhood abuse and/or neglect among all psychiatric disorders. The cardinal feature of dissociation is a disruption in one or more mental functions. Dissociative amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, identity confusion, and identity alterations are core phenomena of dissociative psychopathology which constitute a single dimension characterized by a spectrum of severity.
Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience 2014 Dec; 12(3): 171-179
The Many Faces of Dissociation: Opportunities for Innovative Research in Psychiatry ~ Verdat Sar

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

There is no greater treasure in this world than somebody who loves you as you are. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Transform your desire into love, and limits start to lose their usefulness. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Sometimes it takes a miracle to remind us that the only permanent condition is that of impermanence. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

At each moment, our seemingly objective world emerges from the dancing of consciousness with a single untruth: that there is something out there which is not us. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Man who only acts is a slave. Man who only thinks is an illusionist. But the one, who is wise enough to generate Thougts, and relieze those, by instructing them with self-cognized right technics… the one, who also attempts to interchange the Thought of act into the Act of the thought… is the only one we need to take a cue from. It's because he hase the nature of true ideal realist… ~ SAR GISS

The evolution of the universe is both mirrored by and incumbent upon your own. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Dissociation -the common factor in all types of post-traumatic syndromes- is facilitated by violation of boundaries by relational omission and intrusion as represented by distinct effects and consequences of childhood neglect and abuse. ~ Vedat Sar

The only thing we need to heal is the belief that we are not already whole. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Holly Sykes, says Publicity Girl, falling down the sar-chasm. ~ David Mitchell

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own, ~ Jiang Zemin

I never realized it was all a game,
until I started winning. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law. ~ Wu Bangguo

One truth remains clear through the doubts and the questions, whether sinful or sanctified, virtue or vice:
While the past may belong to the Buddhists and Christians, the future belongs to the Buddhas and Christs. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

September 11, 1974 - Mets and Cardinals play 25 innings in the longest night game in history ~ Josh Leventhal

The fact of your heart's enfoldment in mine is evidence enough that there is, underneath it all, some hidden order to this world. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been. ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal