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The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist, and that those other worlds must contain experiences which have a meaning for our life also; and that although in the main their experiences and those of this world keep discrete, yet the two become continuous at certain points, and higher energies filter in.
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From those thy words, I deem from some distress by deeds of mine thy dear life I might save; O then, delay not! if one ever gave his life to any, mine I give to thee; come, tell me what the price of love must be? Swift death, to be with thee a day and night and with the earliest dawning to be slain? Or better, a long year of great delight, and many years of misery and pain? Or worse, and this poor hour for all my gain? A sorry merchant am I on this day,e'en as thou willest so must I obey.
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
We already have the Wooden Pillar, the Steel Pillar and the Plastic Pillar. In a moment we will have the Golden Bail... No, you won't.' We will,' stated the robot simply. No, you won't. It makes my ship work.' In a moment,' repeated the robot patiently, 'we will have the Golden Bail... You will not,' said Zaphod. And then we must go,' said the robot, in all seriousness, 'to a party.' Oh,' said Zaphod, startled, 'can I come?' No,' said the robot, 'we are going to shoot you.' Oh, yeah?' said Zaphod, waggling his gun. Yes,' said the robot, and they shot him. Zaphod was so surprised that they had to shoot him again before he fell down.
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
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It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is, that each is thinking more of what he is intending to say, than of what others are saying; and we never listen when we are planning to speak.
The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice.
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Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream; Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to drearn, still let me sleep.
Reason |
Now you speak of ten heavy and forty-eight light precepts, which are to be regarded as the great monastic precepts of the Mahayana. In what sūtra is this taught? The ten heavy precepts in the Brahma Sutra are as follows. 1. Not killing 2. Not stealing 3. No lasciviousness (celibacy) 4. No false language 5. No selling of liquor 6. No discussion of the faults of other sangha members 7. Not praising oneself and criticizing others 8. Not harming others through stinginess 9. Not accepting the repentance of another while maintaining one's anger 10. Not slandering the Triple Gem (Buddha, Dharma and Sangha)
An imposing air should always be taken as an evidence of imposition. - Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.
You want what you want and he wants what he wants, but God does what He wants.
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Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.
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If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word “God†merely because it was always there.
As soon as the words were out, sorry. Was preferable to the man considered extremely being a woman, as no other. It should not have to show any of it or another, it is imperfect, vulnerable person like everyone else. If you know that wearing a heart of glass, it will break.