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• I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
• Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
• In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
• We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
• One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is…
• Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
• In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
• When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
• Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…
• Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
• Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
• Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…

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