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“Karma is not a doctrine. You do not get any brownie points for subscribing to it. You do not get any negative marks for disbelieving it. Karma is not a creed, a scripture, an ideology, a philosophy, or a theory. It is simply the way things are. It is an existential mechanism. Like the sun, it operates whether you acknowledge it or not, whether you pay obeisance to it or ignore it. It is not looking for a fan club.”
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“Like any fine artist, he controlled the tension of the audience’s longing. You desired, unwittingly, a certain kind of roll or climb, or a return to a certain portion of the air, and he fulfilled your hope slantingly, like a poet, or evaded it until you thought you would burst, and then fulfilled it surprisingly, so you gasped and cried out.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“India, materially poor for the last two centuries, yet has an inexhaustible fund of divine wealth; spiritual
“skyscrapers” may occasionally be encountered by the wayside, even by worldly men like this policeman.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“skyscrapers” may occasionally be encountered by the wayside, even by worldly men like this policeman.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“To love both the invisible God, Repository of All Virtues, and visible man, apparently possessed of none, is often baffling! But ingenuity is equal to the maze. Inner research soon exposes a unity in all human minds−the stalwart kinship of selfish motive. In one sense at least, the brotherhood of man stands revealed. An aghast humility follows this leveling discovery. It ripens into compassion for one's fellows, blind to the healing potencies of the soul awaiting exploration.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen,
And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sounds contribute towards me.”
― Leaves of Grass
And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sounds contribute towards me.”
― Leaves of Grass
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