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You may accept the inevitable with bitterness and resentment or with patience and grace. Mere acceptance is not sufficient.
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No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until…
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The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has…
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Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which…
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God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.
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Look how the smaller birds greet the sun, with so much merry chirruping and so much outpouring of song! It is their…
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The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into…
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Every morning is like a new reincarnation into this world. Let us take it then for what it is and live each…
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Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement…
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Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one…
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The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally…
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When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting…
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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time…
— Louise Brooks
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose…
— Walter Scott
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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening…
— Arthur Koestler
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I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it…
— Brother Lawrence
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It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes…
— Paul Brunton
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
— Novalis
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
— Edmund Waller
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Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than…
— Jane Austen
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the…
— Alexander Pushkin
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Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
— Charles Churchill
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The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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