"The mind is like a lake lashed into waves. Make the water of the lake clear and calm."

-- Swami Prabhavananda

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“Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

Source : "The Little Prince". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, April, 1943.
“Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.”

Source : Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books
“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”
“If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.97, Penguin
“We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human.”
“As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.”

Source : Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.443, John Wiley & Sons
“Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.”

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