Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the read more
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Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and read more
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Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
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Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.
Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
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He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord,
To visit him to-morrow or next day:
He is read more
He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord,
To visit him to-morrow or next day:
He is within, with two right reverend fathers,
Divinely bent to meditation,
And in no worldly suits would he be moved
To draw him from his holy exercise.
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I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I read more
I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.
