"Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby."

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Source : "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

Sara Maitland

#Christian Quotes #Buddhist Quotes #Prayer Quotes

“A man without patience is a lamp without oil.”
“Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.”

Source : Viktor Schauberger “Living Energies”, Рипол Классик
“Either fraternity is spontaneous, or it does not exist. To decree it is to annihilate it. The law can indeed force men to remain just; in vain would it would try to force them to be self-sacrificing.”
“Despite winning the world championship, it has not altered the reality of the situation.”
“We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.”

Source : Manly Palmer Hall (1949). “Horizon”
“All that time is lost which might be better employed.”
“In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could be so much easier. The other guys are out having fun, doing other things, why not me?'”

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