"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize."
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity."
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Source: Voltaire (2015). “Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary”, p.497, Voltaire
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