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"It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him."

"Friendship peculiar boon of Heaven The noble mind's delight and pride To men and angels only given To all the lower world denied."
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"One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease."

"From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

"LSD stands out for learning to slow down."

"The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully."

"To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath."

"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."

"Let the moment be memorable."

"Awareness (of the Self) prevails in matters where one becomes attachment-free (vitrag), and where one has attachment-abhorrence, there his awareness will not prevail."

"The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness."

"Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world."
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