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To the animals of the earth and those of heaven, to the wild beasts of the forest, to the winged birds, do we speak, they shall deliver us from calamity.
You very often condemn the mind as a monkey; but take it from Me, it is far worse.
Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL
The Unseen One, featureless, unthinkable, undefinable by name. Whose Substance is the certitude of One Self, in Whom world-existence is stilled, Who is all peace and bliss - that is the Self, that is what be known. - Mandukya Upanishad
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The Self is within all, and it is without all. – Isha Upanishad
Body | Consciousness | Day | Heaven | Light | Mortal | Self | World |
Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.
There’s no excuse for poverty in a state as rich as California. We can produce so much food that we have to dump it into our bay.
Distinguish | Dreams | Men | Music | Poetry | Sacred | Words | Friends |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Fiction writers, at least in their braver moments, do desire the truth: to know it, speak it, serve it. But they go about it in a peculiar and devious way, which consists in inventing persons, places, and events which never did and never will exist or occur, and telling about these fictions in detail and at length and with a great deal of emotion, and then when they are done writing down this pack of lies, they say, There! That's the truth!
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The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must be anchored in a different place, and in a different way, than has been the case so far. If it is to be more than just a slogan mocked by half the world, it cannot be expressed in the language of a departing era, and it must not be mere froth floating on the subsiding waters of faith in a purely scientific relationship to the world.
On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The burning ambition exile the pleasures of youth to govern alone.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
The righteous person caries on circumspectly and serenely whatever happens, and is undeviatingly harmonious even when asleep and dreaming. The malevolent person lapses into violent behavior instead of discussing things, and betrays anger even while speaking musically with laughing words.
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The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. - But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. - There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.