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"And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight."
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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."
"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."
"Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world."
"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."
"Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you. Be control of your mind."
"There are moments in life that one certainly believes he is alive."
"Monitor and control every passing day so as to live without regrets."
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
"Then I realized the vital necessity of art. Human life, yes, you nurse people, you clean house, you market, but then comes the moment of solace and flight. i sit and write and summon other friends, other forms of life, other experiences, and the voyage and the exploration, the delving into character, the vast expanse of life's possibilities and potentialities, contemplation of future travels, of dazzling friendships, all this then makes the chores and the sacrifices beautiful because they are diverted toward some beautiful aim, they become part of the structure of a work of art."
"I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced."
"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them."
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