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The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country… — Rajneesh
The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation.… — Rajneesh
Try to relax, and you will find out that you feel more tense than ever. Try harder and you will feel more tense and more… — Rajneesh
There is no possibility of relaxation if you have a mind and an ego; the ego is the center of the mind. You will be… — Rajneesh
Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise… — Rajneesh
Surrender is not something that you can do. If you do it, it is not surrender, because the doer is there. Surrender is a great… — Rajneesh
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest… — Thomas Jefferson
The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding. — John of the Cross
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered… — Robert Winston
Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and… — George W. Bush
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on… — David Hume
They understand but a little who understand only what can be explained. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self. — Albert Einstein
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but… — Helen Keller
I can't think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average… — Neal Boortz
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and… — Hippocrates

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