"Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing."
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"In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual."
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"With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view."
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"You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time"
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"They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself."
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"For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite."
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"Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees."
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"A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order."
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"Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in."
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"When I go back to Gombe it's to be in that timeless world where it's soft and where life is entwined and you actually see the pattern of nature. I always feel this great spiritual power which I believe is around."
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"All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms"
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"Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing."
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"A mind that practices love cannot love."
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"Training the intellect does not result in intelligence. Intelligence comes into being when one acts in perfect harmony, both intellectually and emotionally."
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"Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation."
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"The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness."
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"Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of it, which is to understand your own mind."
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"Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar."
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"If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever."
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"In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man."
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