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Richard Smoley

"Mastering – or, if you prefer, integrating – the psyche is the work of a lifetime….This mastery is not holding the psyche in rigid subjugation (which is impossible in any case), nor is it a matter of having a maniacally religious ego lording it over the emotions and the body. Rather, it is being centered in the still, small voice that is the true 'I' of the spirit."

Source : Richard Smoley (2002). “Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition”, p.114, Shambhala Publications

Richard Smoley

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“Tactics and strategies ought to be based on what the real world is, and we do not have the political power to do this. We're not about to shut the government down over the fact that we cannot, only controlling one house of Congress, tell the president that we're not going to fund any portion of [Obamacare]. Because we can't do that.”
“When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.”
“In particular, recently Belgium has banned the sale of a cellphone to a 7-year-old. Turkey has banned ads and advertising to children. So has France for children under 12. India has bans in certain areas. In Bangalore, you cannot sell a cellphone to someone younger than 16. So in different parts of the world, they've taken different steps.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes even profound. The authors, writing for nonspecialists, take pains to explain technical ideas in nontechnical language, and the book should interest general readers as well as a large mathematical audience.”
“I think live-in relations are for people who are not sure, and to an extent commitment phobic.”
“Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.”
“I'm a color person, I've never been known to play it safe. Plus I like big bags. My eyeglasses are so big; they don't fit into smaller bags.”
“Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.”

Source : William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.248

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