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Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney, born on June 18, 1942, is a renowned musician, singer, and songwriter from Liverpool, England. He is a founding member of The Beatles, a band that had a profound impact on popular music. McCartney is known for his unique musical talent, versatile performance skills, and prolific songwriting. more

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“When the mind is quiet, we come to know ourselves as the pure witness. We withdraw from the experience and its experiencer and stand apart in pure awareness, which is between and beyond the two. The personality, based on self-identification, on imagining itself to be something: 'I am this, I am that', continues, but only as a part of the objective world. Its identification with the witness snaps.”

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“[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.”

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