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"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."

"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."

"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."

"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."

"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."

"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."

"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."

"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."

"Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what's most important."

"When someone picks the Gnani Purush's [the enlightened one's] 'pocket', how does the Gnani Purush'' look at it? "Very well! This amount is now credited to my account! Money spent for the home is money down the drain. How can anyone 'see' this [fact] with the narrow inner intent of 'mine and yours'? With an all encompassing [broader] intent, one will see 'as it is', that is called 'Gnan' [Knowledge]."
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"My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane..."That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right anatomical quality. Tight blown, quivering in the blast of noisy life. It was time for him to descend from the serene empyrean of words into the actual vortex. He went down slowly. "My soul is a thin, tenuous membrane..."

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."

"La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas."

"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."

"There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the world"well, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have always worked in the Fertilizing Room? What are you to answer?"

"Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of."
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