Balinese Quotes

• I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese friends in Los Angeles, I felt connected. The island is so peaceful and the smiles are constant.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Islands, Years, Peaceful

  "Supermodel Carolyn Murphy on Travel Hits and Misses". Interview with Stacie Krajchir, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

  Spalding Gray

  Travel, Believe, Pilots

  Spalding Gray (1992). “Monster in a Box”, Vintage

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• Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile. (From Ketut Liyer, the Balinese healer)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dirty, Yoga, Practice

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.216, A&C Black

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• If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.

  Melissa George

  Home, Thinking, Design

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• Orientation in time, space, and status are the essentials of social existence, and the Balinese, although they make very strong spirits for ceremonial occasions, with a few startling exceptions resist alcohol, because if one drinks one loses one's orientation. Orientation is felt as a protection rather than as a strait jacket and its loss provokes extreme anxiety.

  Margaret Mead

  Strong, Loss, Space

  Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead (1942). “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis”

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