"There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep."

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Source : Dion Fortune (1971). “Goat Foot God: A Novel”, p.235, Weiser Books

Dion Fortune

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“The way to entice people into cooking is to cook delicious things.”
“The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow
“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”
“Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.”

Source : Claudia Gray (2010). “Stargazer (Evernight, Book 2)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK
“Reprehension is a kind of middle thing betwixt admonition and correction: it is sharpe admonition, but a milde correction. It is rather to be used because it may be a meanes to prevent strokes and blowes, especially in ingenuous and good natured children. [Blows are] the last remedy which a parent can use: a remedy which may doe good when nothing else can.”
“Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one of many countries that have received these age-old teachings. While Indian yogic disciplines (Hatha yoga in particular) have become well known, not everyone realizes that certain distinctive Japanese versions of Indian spiritual paths have evolved. Perhaps the first of these unique methodologies is the art of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which was developed by Nakamura Tempu Sensei (1876-1968). In fact, Nakamura Sensei is often considered to be the father of yoga in Japan.”

Source : "Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation". Book by H.E.Davey, 2001.
“How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.”
“The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.”

Source : John Dunning (2012). “The Bookman's Wake”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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