"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."

-- Hermann Hesse

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“Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.”
“I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.”

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“But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.”
“The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.”
“My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.”
“Don't depend on something that comes from outside. Outside things are never going to make you happy.”

Source : Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist
“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”
“If slaughter houses had glass walls, would we even be having this debate?”

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