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Merv Griffin
Merv Griffin

Merv Griffin was an American television and radio host, singer, and songwriter, renowned for hosting the iconic game show 'The Merv Griffin Show' from 1962 to 1966. He achieved fame with his chart-topping hits like 'I've Got You Under My Skin' and 'The Morning After'. Griffin's career spanned over five decades, and he was a prominent figure in the entertainment industry. more

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“To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.”

“But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure.”