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Sholem Asch, born Szalom Asz, also written Shalom Asch
The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.
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By realising Him who is subtler than the subtlest who dwells in the midst of the chaos, who is the Creator of all things and is endowed with many forms, who is the non-dual Pervader of the universe and all good-by realising Him one attains the supreme peace.
The Lord, Isa, supports all this which has been joined together-the perishable and the imperishable, the manifest, the effect and the unmanifest, the cause. The same Lord, the Supreme Self, devoid of Lordship, becomes bound because of assuming the attitude of the enjoyer. The jiva again realizes the Supreme Self and is freed from all fetters.
The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings-much less this fire. He shining, everything shines after Him. By his light all this is lighted.
Know, then, that prakriti is maya and that Great God is the Lord of maya. The whole universe is filled with objects which are parts of His being.
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Those who know Him who can be realised by the pure heart, who is called incorporeal, who is the cause of creation and destruction, who is all good and the creator of the sixteen parts-those who know the luminous Lord are freed from embodiment.
Birth | Enjoyment | Individual | Soul |
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct... and to refrain from destruction.
Attention | Body | Circumstances | Destroy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Men | Nature | Necessity | Obligation | Power | Present | Public | Reality | Rule | Soul | Thought | Time | Will | World | Thought |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
Soul | Will | Learn | Understand |
The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.
Absence | Evil | Extreme | Fear | Hunger | Initiative | Need | Public | Risk | Security | Soul |
In order to be exercised, the intelligence requires to be free to express itself without control by any authority. There must therefore be a domain of pure intellectual research, separate but accessible to all, where no authority intervenes.
Effort | Good | Literature | Psychology | Soul | Thought | Thought |
Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
Misfortune | Nothing | Soul | Misfortune |
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like a condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
Acceptance | Individual | Nature | Soul | Spirit | Trust |