"Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts."

-- Paul Brunton

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“The more you practice what you know, the more shall you know what to practice.”
“As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise these questions out of deep caring and compassion, for our community generally, and our male infants in particular. We are inflicting, generally, unrecognized harm with circumcision, and the perpetuation of this harm is far greater a concern than the discomfort that comes from confronting the advisability of this practice. Many Jews who do not circumcise in North America, South America, Europe, and Israel support this view.”
“Seldom has a battle, in which greater numbers were not engaged, been so important in its consequences as that of Cowpens.”
“And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.”
“It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.”
“The more you give, the more you live.”
“It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.”

Source : "Gustavo Dudamel: 'I'm not the messiah" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2010.
“For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.”

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