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Allison Heavens
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“It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entrust oneself to someone who knows not that he knows not. Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck? So let me go my own way even if it is the wrong one.”
― The Seeker
― The Seeker
“You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.”
― The Seeker
― The Seeker
“Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.”
― The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi
― The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
― The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim
― The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling: Captains Courageous - Kim
“Certainly, Gandhi is not inferior to Christ in goodness and sanctity, and he surpasses him in touching humility. Gandhi is the prophet of hope in this age of pessimism and disillusionment. He is a promise of sanity in the madness induced by our world's heedless drinking at the fount of war.”
― The Seeker
― The Seeker
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