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“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
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“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
― Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
― Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
“She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.”
― Case Histories
― Case Histories
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
― Om Chanting and Meditation
― Om Chanting and Meditation
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.”
― The Story of Art
― The Story of Art
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