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"Finished reading Volume 1. This volume divided into four sections: Addresses at the parliament of religions, Karma-Yoga, Raja-Yoga and some Lectures and discourses. I found the Karma-Yoga especially relevant. Among the discourses the one on Reason and Religion is very insightful." — Nov 24, 2020 10:23AM
"Finished reading Volume 1. This volume divided into four sections: Addresses at the parliament of religions, Karma-Yoga, Raja-Yoga and some Lectures and discourses. I found the Karma-Yoga especially relevant. Among the discourses the one on Reason and Religion is very insightful." — Nov 24, 2020 10:23AM
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
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“You talk nonsense and are pleased with it; you say impudent things and are in continual alarm and apologizing for them. You declare that you are afraid of nothing and at the same time try to ingratiate yourself in our good opinion. You declare that you are gnashing your teeth and at the same time you try to be witty so as to amuse us. You know that your witticisms are not witty, but you are evidently well satisfied with their literary value. You may, perhaps, have really suffered, but you have no respect for your own suffering. You may have sincerity, but you have no modesty; out of the pettiest vanity you expose your sincerity to publicity and ignominy. You doubtlessly mean to say something, but hide your last word through fear, because you have not the resolution to utter it, and only have a cowardly impudence. You boast of consciousness, but you are not sure of your ground, for though your mind works, yet your heart is darkened and corrupt, and you cannot have a full, genuine consciousness without a pure heart. And how intrusive you are, how you insist and grimace! Lies, lies, lies!”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
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