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“So too, friend, purification of virtue is for the sake of reaching purification of mind; purification of mind is for the sake of reaching purification of view; purification of view is for the sake of reaching purification by overcoming doubt; purification by overcoming doubt is for the sake of reaching purification by knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path; purification by knowledge and vision of what is the path and what is not the path is for the sake of reaching purification by knowledge and vision of the way; purification by knowledge and vision of the way is for the sake of reaching purification by knowledge and vision; purification by knowledge and vision is for the sake of reaching final Nibbāna [Nirvana] without clinging. It is for the sake of final Nibbāna without clinging that the holy life is lived under the Blessed One.”
― The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya
― The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya
“...the neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic.”
― Psychic Self-Defense
― Psychic Self-Defense
“Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“The body is the vehicle of the mind.”
― Psychic Self-Defense
― Psychic Self-Defense
“In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.”
― Persian Letters
― Persian Letters
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