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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; bu

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There comes a time in the seekers life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved. – Sri Chinmoy

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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just whats so. – Werner Erhard

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For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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