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In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

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When this love, the heavenly gift of Nature, appears in the heart, it removes all causes of excitation from the system and…
Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of…
Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making…
A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual…
Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.
Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.
Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.
Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or…
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at…
The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless…
Many teachers will tell you to believe; then they put out your eyes of reason and instruct you to follow only their…

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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip… — John Updike
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You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it… — Jean-Claude Van Damme
I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have… — Stan Musial
Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Those who give the first shock to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin; the fruits of public commotion are… — Michel de Montaigne
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — Arthur Schopenhauer
In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle. — Sri Yukteswar Giri
The Natural Step is a clear voice in the commotion. — Leif Johansson
Game in, game out, year in, year out, just a kid cruising the ice looking to cause trouble - a wicked wristshot… — Ken Dryden
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. — Marilu Henner
It’s a marvelous thing, the ocean. For some reason when two people sit together looking out at it, they stop caring whether… — Banana Yoshimoto

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