"Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God."

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Source : Frithjof Schuon, James S. Cutsinger (2004). “Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life”, p.179, World Wisdom, Inc

Frithjof Schuon

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“When I was a kid I thought I saw a ghost in the forest when I was on a bush walk, like a walk through the forest. I saw something weird pass from one side of the track to the other, and it was sort of a white, blurry... it's hard to describe, really, something that was almost see-through but it just moved in front of me. It was definitely something you could tell was there, and it really freaked me out. I think I was probably 10, and I ran all the way home.”
“When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.”
“But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.”
“Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as searching for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.”
“Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.”
“It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.”
“High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.”
“Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.”

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