the U.S. Post Office is so deeply attached to Herodotus’s description of the great king’s messengers of whom he wrote, “Neither rain, nor snow, nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed
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“suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“But no, I decided, he is just a man at peace with himself and with life—an accomplishment rare in its own right.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“Buddha suggested as much when he told his monks, “‘Actions exist, and also their consequences, but the person that acts does not.”
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
― Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment
“They are ever eager to assure us that man’s most sublime thoughts of the Transcendent are but a little better than his worst: that loving intuition is the only certain guide. “By love may He be gotten and holden, but by thought never.”
― Practical Mysticism
― Practical Mysticism
“Knowing the poison is never the same as knowing the killer.”
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
― The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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