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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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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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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way. – C.S. Lewis

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Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them. – C.S. Lewis

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[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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By and by… there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Through meditation, the Higher Self is seen. – Bhagavad Gita

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[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it…. [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. – Charles Baudelaire

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