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XXXV. O, Young Bride of Shiva! You are Mind, You are Space, You are Wind, You are Fire, for which Wind is the Charioteer; You are the Cosmic Waters, You are Earth. You transform yourself into all these forms. You alone unfold yourself into the entire Universe. There is nothing outside you. It is you who, through your play, manifest your consciousness and bliss in the body of this Universe.
Ananda Lahari The Wave of Beauty

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<div class="bbWrapper">XXXV. O, Young Bride of Shiva! You are Mind, You are Space, You are Wind, You are Fire, for which Wind is the Charioteer; You are the Cosmic Waters, You are Earth. You transform yourself into all these forms. You alone unfold yourself into the entire Universe. There is nothing outside you. It is you who, through your play, manifest your consciousness and bliss in the body of this Universe.<br /> Ananda Lahari The Wave of Beauty</div>

 

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His body possessed neither Duaa’s mysteriously captivating shimmer nor Tritt’s pleasant squareness. He loved them both, but he would not have traded appearances with either of them. And certainly not minds. Naturally, he would never say this aloud—why hurt their feelings?—but every day he was glad that he had been spared both Tritt’s limited consciousness and, even more so, Duaa’s capricious thought processes. In any case, they were probably not troubled by the shortcomings of such types of thinking—for they knew nothing else.
(Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves")

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<div class="bbWrapper">His body possessed neither Duaa’s mysteriously captivating shimmer nor Tritt’s pleasant squareness. He loved them both, but he would not have traded appearances with either of them. And certainly not minds. Naturally, he would never say this aloud—why hurt their feelings?—but every day he was glad that he had been spared both Tritt’s limited consciousness and, even more so, Duaa’s capricious thought processes. In any case, they were probably not troubled by the shortcomings of such types of thinking—for they knew nothing else.<br /> (Isaac Asimov, "The Gods Themselves")</div>

 

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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone’s beard.
Sigmund Freud

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<div class="bbWrapper">It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing someone’s beard.<br /> Sigmund Freud</div>

 

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It is difficult for us to understand that others are people just like us.
We either idealize them as gods or despise them as animals.

John Green. “Paper Towns”

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<div class="bbWrapper">It is difficult for us to understand that others are people just like us.<br /> We either idealize them as gods or despise them as animals.<br /> <br /> John Green. “Paper Towns”</div>

 

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Perhaps I am mistaken, but it seems to me that you can recognize a person by their laugh, and if, from your very first meeting, you find the laugh of some complete stranger pleasant, then you may confidently say that this is a good person.
(F. M. Dostoevsky, “Notes from a Dead House”)

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<div class="bbWrapper">Perhaps I am mistaken, but it seems to me that you can recognize a person by their laugh, and if, from your very first meeting, you find the laugh of some complete stranger pleasant, then you may confidently say that this is a good person.<br /> (F. M. Dostoevsky, “Notes from a Dead House”)</div>

 

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Laughter without a reason is the best laughter in the world—all this joyful bubbling of young, fresh life, this surge forward—wherever it may lead, so long as it is forward.
I. S. Turgenev "

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<div class="bbWrapper">Laughter without a reason is the best laughter in the world—all this joyful bubbling of young, fresh life, this surge forward—wherever it may lead, so long as it is forward.<br /> I. S. Turgenev "</div>

 

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I am not laughing. Of all the Realities, I chose the one in which I was sent to the 482nd Century, where I first met Finji and then you. I chose the Reality in which you loved me;
I saw how we loved each other and were happy. There is nothing funny about that. I chose the Reality in which our love exists.
The number of possible Realities is infinitely large. And each Reality has countless variations.
We learned to observe the Realities and found among them the one that is the Natural State of humanity. There are many varieties of happiness. This is the Natural State of humanity.
(Isaac Asimov, "The End of Eternity")

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<div class="bbWrapper">I am not laughing. Of all the Realities, I chose the one in which I was sent to the 482nd Century, where I first met Finji and then you. I chose the Reality in which you loved me;<br /> I saw how we loved each other and were happy. There is nothing funny about that. I chose the Reality in which our love exists.<br /> The number of possible Realities is infinitely large. And each Reality has countless variations.<br /> We learned to observe the Realities and found among them the one that is the Natural State of humanity. There are many varieties of happiness. This is the Natural State of humanity.<br /> (Isaac Asimov, "The End of Eternity")</div>

 

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In your reality, you have the film that is playing in your “projector.” Whatever you draw is what you will see. The only problem is that people do the opposite: they draw whatever they see.
V. Zeland (Reality Transurfing)

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<div class="bbWrapper">In your reality, you have the film that is playing in your “projector.” Whatever you draw is what you will see. The only problem is that people do the opposite: they draw whatever they see.<br /> V. Zeland (Reality Transurfing)</div>

 

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Our teachers, in fact, even if they become upset with us, do not become so upset that they completely withdraw from our affairs. But I have noticed that they may become less available when irritated students avoid genuinely resolving their problems. Our Guides wish the very best for us, and sometimes that means they must simply observe attentively as we endure the pain and suffering necessary to accomplish certain goals. The Guides cannot help us progress until we are ready to make the necessary changes and make the fullest use of all the opportunities that life offers us.
(Michael Newton, "Journey of Souls")

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<div class="bbWrapper">Our teachers, in fact, even if they become upset with us, do not become so upset that they completely withdraw from our affairs. But I have noticed that they may become less available when irritated students avoid genuinely resolving their problems. Our Guides wish the very best for us, and sometimes that means they must simply observe attentively as we endure the pain and suffering necessary to accomplish certain goals. The Guides cannot help us progress until we are ready to make the necessary changes and make the fullest use of all the opportunities that life offers us.<br /> (Michael Newton, "Journey of Souls")</div>

 

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Let us say a prayer to Shambhala: "You who called me to the path of labor, accept my skill and my desire. Accept my labor, O Lord, for You see me day and night. Reveal Your hand, O Lord, for the darkness is great. I follow You!"
(Agni Yoga, "Agni Yoga")

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<div class="bbWrapper">Let us say a prayer to Shambhala: "You who called me to the path of labor, accept my skill and my desire. Accept my labor, O Lord, for You see me day and night. Reveal Your hand, O Lord, for the darkness is great. I follow You!"<br /> (Agni Yoga, "Agni Yoga")</div>

 

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Therefore, Arjuna, think only of Me at all times and fight. With your mind and intellect dedicated to Me, you will undoubtedly come to Me.
Bhagavad Gita (ch. 8, verse 7)

Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever offerings you make, whatever you give, and whatever austerities you perform, do it, O son of Kunti, as an offering to Me.
Bhagavad Gita (ch. 9, verse 27)

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<div class="bbWrapper">Therefore, Arjuna, think only of Me at all times and fight. With your mind and intellect dedicated to Me, you will undoubtedly come to Me.<br /> Bhagavad Gita (ch. 8, verse 7)<br /> <br /> Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever offerings you make, whatever you give, and whatever austerities you perform, do it, O son of Kunti, as an offering to Me.<br /> Bhagavad Gita (ch. 9, verse 27)</div>

 

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Such is the dignity of wisdom:
Not to conquer those who have risen high—
There, all are equal under God's hand.
The conquered are those whom the Lord rejects.
If only I could live with divine thoughts,
Leaving vice aside.
(Seneca, "Moral Letters...")

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<div class="bbWrapper">Such is the dignity of wisdom:<br /> Not to conquer those who have risen high—<br /> There, all are equal under God's hand.<br /> The conquered are those whom the Lord rejects.<br /> If only I could live with divine thoughts,<br /> Leaving vice aside.<br /> (Seneca, "Moral Letters...")</div>

 

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Let him smile inwardly; it is nothing—people often laugh at what is kind and good; it is merely frivolity. But I assure you, gentlemen, that as soon as he smiles, he will say in his heart: “No, I was wrong to smile, because this is not something to laugh at!”
For people were created for happiness, and whoever is completely happy is surely entitled to say to himself: “I have fulfilled God's will on this earth.” All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
(Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")

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<div class="bbWrapper">Let him smile inwardly; it is nothing—people often laugh at what is kind and good; it is merely frivolity. But I assure you, gentlemen, that as soon as he smiles, he will say in his heart: “No, I was wrong to smile, because this is not something to laugh at!”<br /> For people were created for happiness, and whoever is completely happy is surely entitled to say to himself: “I have fulfilled God's will on this earth.” All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.<br /> (Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov")</div>

 

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Above all, we must utterly uproot the conviction that higher knowledge is attained through some strange, mysterious methods. We must understand that we should begin with the feelings and thoughts in which a person lives constantly, and that these thoughts and feelings need only be given a different direction instead of their habitual one.
Rudolf Steiner (How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?..)

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<div class="bbWrapper">Above all, we must utterly uproot the conviction that higher knowledge is attained through some strange, mysterious methods. We must understand that we should begin with the feelings and thoughts in which a person lives constantly, and that these thoughts and feelings need only be given a different direction instead of their habitual one.<br /> Rudolf Steiner (How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds?..)</div>

 

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The strangest thing about miracles is that they happen.
Clouds come together in the unmistakable pattern of a human eye.
A tree bends into a question mark just when you do not know what to do.
As Edgar Poe once observed, wisdom must rely on the unforeseen.
(Gilbert Chesterton, "The Sapphire Cross")

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<div class="bbWrapper">The strangest thing about miracles is that they happen.<br /> Clouds come together in the unmistakable pattern of a human eye.<br /> A tree bends into a question mark just when you do not know what to do.<br /> As Edgar Poe once observed, wisdom must rely on the unforeseen.<br /> (Gilbert Chesterton, "The Sapphire Cross")</div>

 

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Moments of self-remembering occur in life, though rarely. The deliberate creation of such moments evoked a feeling of novelty, but in reality they had been familiar to me since early childhood. They arose in unfamiliar surroundings or in a new place, among strangers, for example, while traveling, when you suddenly look around and say to yourself: "How strange! Here I am!" Or they appeared in highly emotional moments, in moments of danger, at such instants when it is necessary not to lose one's head, when a person seems to hear his own voice, sees and observes himself from the outside. I saw with complete clarity that my earliest memories of life—very early ones—were moments of self-remembering. This revealed much else to me as well. Namely, I saw that I truly remember only those moments of the past during which I remembered myself.
(P.D. Ouspensky, "In Search of the Miraculous")

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<div class="bbWrapper">Moments of <i>self-remembering</i> occur in life, though rarely. The deliberate creation of such moments evoked a feeling of novelty, but in reality they had been familiar to me since early childhood. They arose in unfamiliar surroundings or in a new place, among strangers, for example, while traveling, when you suddenly look around and say to yourself: "How strange! Here I am!" Or they appeared in highly emotional moments, in moments of danger, at such instants when it is necessary not to lose one's head, when a person seems to hear his own voice, sees and observes himself from the outside. I saw with complete clarity that my earliest memories of life—very early ones—were moments of <i>self-remembering. </i>This revealed much else to me as well. Namely, I saw that I truly remember only those moments of the past during which I remembered myself.<br /> (P.D. Ouspensky, "In Search of the Miraculous")</div>

 

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For a long time I could not answer anything, and we stood silently facing each other, holding hands, gazing straight, deeply, and joyfully into each other's eyes. I have always regarded those few silent seconds as the happiest in my life; never, never, neither before nor afterward, had I experienced such pure, complete, all-consuming rapture.
(A.I. Kuprin, "Olesya")

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<div class="bbWrapper">For a long time I could not answer anything, and we stood silently facing each other, holding hands, gazing straight, deeply, and joyfully into each other's eyes. I have always regarded those few silent seconds as the happiest in my life; never, never, neither before nor afterward, had I experienced such pure, complete, all-consuming rapture.<br /> (A.I. Kuprin, "Olesya")</div>

 

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My God does not love many words,
He loves the quiet silence of lovers,
Who have torn thousands of shackles from themselves,
And been carried upward by their consciousness.
My God is silent. He listens to the hearts
In which consciousness is awakening.
And their voice—the silence of the universe,
Like a quiet whisper without beginning or end.
S. Veretennikova (My God, "A Little More Than Silence")

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<div class="bbWrapper">My God does not love many words,<br /> He loves the quiet silence of lovers,<br /> Who have torn thousands of shackles from themselves,<br /> And been carried upward by their consciousness.<br /> My God is silent. He listens to the hearts<br /> In which consciousness is awakening.<br /> And their voice—the silence of the universe,<br /> Like a quiet whisper without beginning or end.<br /> S. Veretennikova (My God, "A Little More Than Silence")</div>

 

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In every brilliant or new human thought, or even simply in every serious human thought arising in someone's mind, there always remains something that cannot possibly be conveyed to other people, even if you filled entire volumes and explained your thought for thirty-five years; there will always remain something that will refuse at any cost to emerge from beneath your skull and will stay with you forever.
(F.M. Dostoevsky, "The Idiot")

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<div class="bbWrapper">In every brilliant or new human thought, or even simply in every serious human thought arising in someone's mind, there always remains something that cannot possibly be conveyed to other people, even if you filled entire volumes and explained your thought for thirty-five years; there will always remain something that will refuse at any cost to emerge from beneath your skull and will stay with you forever.<br /> (F.M. Dostoevsky, "The Idiot")</div>

 

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On the star, on the planet—on my planet called Earth—the Little Prince was crying, and he had to be comforted. I took him in my arms and began to rock him. I said to him: "Nothing threatens the flower you love... I will draw a muzzle for your little ram... I will draw armor for your flower... I..." I did not know what else to say to him. I felt terribly awkward and clumsy. How could I call out so that he would hear, how could I catch up with his soul slipping away from me... For it is so mysterious and unexplored, this land of tears...
(Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince")

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<div class="bbWrapper">On the star, on the planet—on my planet called Earth—the Little Prince was crying, and he had to be comforted. I took him in my arms and began to rock him. I said to him: "Nothing threatens the flower you love... I will draw a muzzle for your little ram... I will draw armor for your flower... I..." I did not know what else to say to him. I felt terribly awkward and clumsy. How could I call out so that he would hear, how could I catch up with his soul slipping away from me... For it is so mysterious and unexplored, this land of tears...<br /> (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince")</div>