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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and pr

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. – C.S. Lewis

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. – C.S. Lewis

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Courage
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons. – C.S. Lewis

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Bible, The
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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity. – C.S. Lewis

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Helping
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Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging. – Yeshe Dorje

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Meditation

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life. – Paramahansa Yogananda

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Meditation

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation. – Yogaswami

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Meditation

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Dont be afraid to fail. Dont waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. Its OK to fail. If youre not failing, youre not growing. – H. Stanley Judd

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I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming. – Michael Phelps

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We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented. – Frank B. Kellogg

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