"The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God."

-- Radhanath Swami

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“A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.”
“It was only when we were in that bed, high above the world - then I thought the birds could have been circling around our bodies circled around each other - that we made our world totally separated from everything else. It was the only way we could be together.”
“I love the fact that no one's ever bought my record because they were enamoured of the way I look. Maybe one person. There must be someone out there with compromised taste.”
“Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.”
“Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us.”
“You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.”
“Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.”
“One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2004). “The Speed of Dark: A Novel”, p.150, Ballantine Books

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