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“Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test...”
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“I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty.
You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house;
and you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
Kabir will tell you the truth: go wherever you like, to Calcutta or Tibet;
if you can't find where your soul is hidden,
for you the world will never be real!”
― The Kabir Book: Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house;
and you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!
Kabir will tell you the truth: go wherever you like, to Calcutta or Tibet;
if you can't find where your soul is hidden,
for you the world will never be real!”
― The Kabir Book: Forty-four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
“We are not victims of our biology. We are co-creators of our destiny alongside God. God leads, but we have to choose to let God lead. We have been designed to create thoughts, and from these we live out our lives (Prov. 23:7).”
― Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health
― Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health
“The most important possession of a country is its population. If this is maintained in health and vigour everything else will follow; if this is allowed to decline nothing, not even great riches, can save the country from eventual ruin.”
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“Multitasking is a persistent myth. Paying deep, focused attention to one task at a time is the correct way.”
― Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health
― Switch On Your Brain: The Key to Peak Happiness, Thinking, and Health
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