“Celui qui aime a toujours tort.”
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
“Hinduism’s predicated on the Self as illusion: no NMRs a thousand years ago, no voxel readers. No evidence. And damned if I can see the adaptive advantage of not believing in your own existence; but neurologically it happens to be true.”
― Firefall: SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AND LOCUS AWARDS
― Firefall: SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AND LOCUS AWARDS
“All living beings desire to be happy always, without any misery.”
― Who Am I?: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
― Who Am I?: The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi
“the other comes into being. And you will never know it either. A man who knows that he is silent, who knows that he loves, does not know what love is or what silence is.”
― Freedom from the Known
― Freedom from the Known
“whenever you got your way you wished afterwards that you hadn’t.”
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
― The W. Somerset Maugham Collection
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