The Self saith unto the ego: "Feel pain!" And thereupon it suffereth, and thinketh how it may put an end thereto—and for that very purpose it IS MEANT to think. The Self saith unto the ego: "Feel pleasure!" Thereupon it rejoiceth, and
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“Whence come the highest mountains? so did I once ask. Then did I learn that they come out of the sea.
That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height.”
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That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height.”
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“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Meditations
― Meditations

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