"Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?"

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

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“There can be no doubt that if we had been victorious on the Vistula, the revolutionary fires would have reached the entire continent.”

Source : "A century's journey: how the great powers shape the world". Book by Robert A. Pastor, Stanley Hoffmann, p. 175, 1999.
“I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.”
“When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.”
“Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.”

Source : Graham Harvey (2013). “Animism: Respecting the Living World”, p.12, Columbia University Press
“In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.”
“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.”

Source : Rumi (2017). “Rumi Poetry: 100 Bedtime Verses”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
“It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.”

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