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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,…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
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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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If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when…
— Samuel Butler
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced…
— Maya Angelou
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion,…
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.
— Harvey Penick
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Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege…
— Chinmayananda Saraswati
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild...
— Charles Wesley
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the…
— Walter Karp
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic, throng the coward and the meek who…
— Ralph Chaplin
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