"If a bell failed to ring, if a stove smoked, if a wheel on a machine stuck, you knew at once where to look and did so with alacrity; you found the defect and knew how to cure it. But the thing within you, the secret mainspring that alone gave meaning to life, the thing within us that alone is living, alone is capable of feeling pleasure and pain, of craving happiness and experiencing it- that was unknown. You knew nothing about that, nothing at all, and if the mainspring failed there was no cure. Wasn't it insane?"

-- Hermann Hesse

#Pain Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Secret Quotes

“In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.”
“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”
“Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.”

Source : "'When you know, you know': Tamara Ecclestone gets engaged to boyfriend after ONE month of dating" by Paul Cockerton, www.mirror.co.uk. February 25, 2013.
“If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.”

Source : Padgett Powell (2012). “The Imperative Mood”, p.1, Profile Books
“More yoga in the world is what we need.”
“A lot of people sayinâ€™ ***** me. Problem is they be telling everybody but me.”
“Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over”
“I'm going to the White House to get my presidential kneepads.”

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