

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.”
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“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
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“Anna Karenina is sheer perfection as a work of art. No European work of fiction of our present day comes anywhere near it. Furthermore, the idea underlying it shows that it is ours, ours, something that belongs to us alone and that is our own property, our own national 'new word'or, at any rate, the beginning of it.”
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“Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.”
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