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As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
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The ultimate, most holy form of theory is action.
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What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream.…
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To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the…
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As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
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Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside…
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As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall…
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No! No! Never acknowledge the limitations of man. Smash all boundaries! Deny whatever your eyes see. Die every moment, but say: Death…
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I surrender myself to everything. I love, I feel pain, I struggle. The world seems to me wider than the mind, my…
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What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one who suffers and the…
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The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable…
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I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen...
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting…
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The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel…
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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When we become incorruptible and immortal and attain to the blessed state of conformity with Christ, we will be ever with the…
— Gregory Palamas
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A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to…
— John Herschel
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there…
— Carl Sagan
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