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The constant design of both these orators in all their speeches was to drive some one particular point.
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Real strength can be found not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep, inner peace. When we have enough insight, we are not caught by many difficult situations anymore.
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I do not, therefore, need any penetrating acuteness to see what I have to do in order that my volition be morally good. Inexperienced in the course of the world, incapable of being prepared for whatever might come to pass in it, I ask myself only: can you also will that your maxim become a universal law?
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In earlier lectures I drew a distinction between positive and philosophical science. The fonner originates from the natural attitude of the mind, the latter from the philosophical.
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When you are lazy, it is a negative taste: you simply feel that you have no energy, you simply feel dull; you simply feel sleepy, you simply feel dead. When you are in a state of non-doing then you are full of energy, it is a very positive taste. You have full energy, overflowing. You are radiant, bubbling, vibrating, you are not sleepy, you are perfectly aware. You are not dead, you are tremendously alive. There is a possibility the mind can deceive you: it can rationalize laziness as non-doing. It can say, "I have become a zen master," or, "I believe in Tao" but you are not deceiving anybody else. You will be deceiving only yourself. So be alert.
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It is absurd to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass.
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If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person of mental unrest, of frustration. Not only that, but if you combine these two, your whole life will be a constructive and happy life. And certainly you can make immense benefit for society and the betterment of humanity. That is one of my fundamental beliefs: that a good heart, a warm heart, a compassionate heart, is still teachable.
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But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.
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Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Plenty of hope for God, no end of hope only not for us.
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