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Fear and Trembling

by Søren Kierkegaard

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James B said: " Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

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The Bacchae

by Euripides

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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson

by G.I. Gurdjieff

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“The whole point of yoga is to bring you to an experience wherein, if you sit here, there is no such thing as “you” and “me.” It is all me—or all you! Any process that helps you to reach this union is yoga.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

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“But the same intellect can be sharpened if you allow it to soak in the other aspect of your mind—your awareness, chitta. If you want to reach your ultimate nature through the mind, you need to make the intellect truly discriminatory, in the ultimate sense. This does not mean dividing everything into good and bad, right and wrong, high and low, heaven and hell, sacred and profane. Instead, all it means is learning to discern the real from the illusory, what is existentially true from what is psychologically true.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

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“The reason why success comes so easily and naturally for one person, and is a struggle for someone else, is essentially this: one person has organized his or her mind to think the way he wants, and another thinks against his or her own interests.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

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“Yoga is a journey toward a reality in which you experience the ultimate nature of existence as borderless unity.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

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“The problem of our times, however, is that the intellect has taken on a disproportionately important role. Modern education has encouraged a completely lopsided development of this aspect of the mind. The essence of the intellect is to divide. So humanity has embarked on a journey of wholesale division, discrimination, and dissection. We have split everything. Even the invisible atom has been split. Once you unleash the intellect, it splits everything it encounters; it does not allow you to be with anything totally. Although it is a wonderful instrument for survival, it is also at the same time a terrible barrier that stands between you and your experience of the oneness of life.”
― Sadhguru, Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

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