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"There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet"
"Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That."
"Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved."
"The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’"
"The best servant does his work unseen."
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen."
"Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf."
"For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words."
"There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us."
"Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token"
"You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath"
"The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit."
"The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout: we are all writers! for everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. one morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived."
"I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces."
"The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us."
"It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves."
"The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter."
"The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen."
"Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown."
"In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere"
