"Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices."

-- Ramana Maharshi

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“Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.”
“There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.”
“Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1992). “Plaintext”, University of Arizona Press
“Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown â€” and the pettiness of the big,”
“Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.18, Penguin
“I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.”
“A failure to learn about Satan's plan for man here on earth would be fatal to the full exercise of free agency. The reason for this lies in the fact that . . . free agency is the opportunity to choose between good and evil. To intelligently make such a choice one must understand the alternatives-both of them. To the extent one is ignorant of these alternatives, to that same extent he has not made a complete choice. Until a person understands Satan's plan, he can never be certain he does not believe in it and is not helping to carry it out.”
“Sexually awakened women, affirmed and recognized as such, would mean the complete collapse of the authoritarian ideology”

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