"Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality."

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Source : "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p. 59, 1937.

African Spir

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“Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.”
“You can talk yourself out of doing something if you start to think about, "How would this person see it, or that person see it?" So sometimes it's allowing myself to be in it and not talking myself out of it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“"Christ" is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole "Jesus" piece would not make sense anymore. If he did everything for just us on this planet he wouldn't be the savior of the "world."”
“In point of fact, 'Simpson-Bowles' has become a symbol, or SimBowl, rather than an actual plan, political shorthand for the process of long-term deficit reduction.”
“Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?”

Source : Randolph Sinks Foster (1870). “Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda”, p.228
“The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?”
“The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.”
“Flying is like the ultimate superpower; it's just, like, the coolest thing.”

Source : "Exclusive Q&A: Big Time Rush". Interview with Gayatri Rajagopalan, www.teenvogue.com. June 27, 2012.

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