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At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against…
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Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
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Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or…
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Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity…
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As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that…
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As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
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The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we…
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The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can…
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Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
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A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into…
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Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm…
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God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked…
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When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to…
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The joy of surmounting obstacles that once seemed unremovable and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further-what other joy is there like it?
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It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
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[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than…
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A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.
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We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the…
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