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"The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (above all) to love no one."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
Truth
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
Morality
"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
Knowledge
"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least."
Faith
"It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
Spiritual
"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."
Spiritual
"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
Society
"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
Inspirational
"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
Creativity
"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
Emotion
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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."
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"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."
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"LSD stands out for learning to slow down."
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Personal Development
"The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully."
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Personal Development
"To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath."
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Personal Development
"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."
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"Let the moment be memorable."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness."
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"Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world."
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