"True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose."

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Source : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”

Caroline Emelia Stephen

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