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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as…
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From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon,…
— William James
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Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance…
— Gautama Buddha
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The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya),…
— Richard Rosen
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The beginning of evil is heedlessness.
— Poemen
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I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Two things rust hearts: heedlessness & sin. Two things polish hearts: seeking forgiveness & remembrance.
— Unknown Author
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