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"There is no rejecting one aspect of reality without rejecting the whole." Peter Kingsley, Reality

"First, madness has to be experienced; then controlled. And to do this is to discover all kinds of sanities, of ways for operating skillfully in the world." Peter Kingsley, Reality

"Parmenides makes it as clear as he can that the root of all our problems, the basic cause of our being so confused, is the very serious obsession we have with naming: with separating things off from each other and then starting to imagine our intellectual distinctions are real."

"...symbolism appears to be quite specially adapted to the needs of human nature, which is not a purely intellectual nature, but which requires a sensory base from which to rise to higher levels." Rene Guenon, Word and Symbol

Buddha beheld the vision of a spiritual world of stainless beauty and perfect peace, and he entered into it."

"He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it. Columbus cherished a vision of another world, and he discovered it; Copernicus fostered the vision of a multiplicity of worlds and a wider universe, and he revealed it;

"Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because they have lived; without them, labouring humanity would perish."

"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them. thwarts himself at every step."

"People had much more respect in those days for the magical power of the spoken word - for its ability to charm and bewitch. They were far less naive than we are: were more aware that those who know most and are most articulate are the ones most likely to deceive." Reality

"The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts."

"A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. "

"Blessedness and riches are only joined together when the riches are rightly and wisely used; and the poor man only descends into wretchedness when he regards his lot as a burden unjustly imposed."

"Blessedness, not material possessions, is the measure of right thought; wretchedness, not lack of material possessions, is the measure of wrong thought. A man may be cursed and rich; he may be blessed and poor."

"The circumstances, which a man encounters with suffering, are the result of his own mental inharmony. The circumstances, which a man encounters with blessedness, are the result of his own mental harmony."

"The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure. Suffering ceases for him who is pure. There could be no object in burning gold after the dross had been removed, and a perfectly pure and enlightened being could not suffer."

"The appearance of discontinuity is impossible without a perfect continuity; the illusion of absence is created by what is always present." Peter Kingsley's Reality.

"Fiction is like sitting on a goldmine and dreaming about gold". Peter Kingsley, Reality. Hell of a quote.

...[posture's] perfection is achieved when the mind is transformed into infinity -- that is, when it makes the idea of its infinity its own content. #MirceaEliade #Yoga

Under the appearance of thought, there is really an indefinite and disordered flickering, fed by sensations, words, and memory. #MirceaEliade #Yoga