"If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house."

Cocteau, Jean on addiction
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"You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world."

Luce, Clare Boothe on apathy   

"I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it."

Thoreau, Henry David on generations
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"The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us."

Wilde, Oscar on generations
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"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

Buscaglia, Leo on apathy
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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Chopin, Frederic on apathy
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"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on apathy
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"Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation."

Bhagavad Gita on meditation
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"Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts."

Bhagavad Gita on doubt
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"When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently."

Bhagavad Gita on feelings
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"The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task."

Buddha on effort
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"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One. I am mighty, world-destroying Time"

Bhagavad Gita on uncategorised   

"Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never;Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams!Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever;Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems!Who knoweth it exhaustless, self-sustained,Immortal, indestructible,shall suchSay, I have killed a man, or caused to kill?Nay, but as when one layethHis worn-out robes away,And, taking new ones, sayeth,These will I wear to-day!So putteth by the spiritLightly its garb of flesh,And passeth to inheritA residence afresh. "

Bhagavad Gita on uncategorised
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"He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion."

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."

Bhagavad Gita on knowledge
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"Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering."

Bhagavad Gita on infinity
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"The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise."

Bhagavad Gita on ignorance
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

Cocteau, Jean on mystery
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"The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul..."

Cohen, Leonard on soul   

"I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything."

Warren, Robert Penn on america   

"Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life."

Kierkegaard, Søren on repetition   

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on fate
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"To be sure, this requires effort and love, a careful cultivation of the spiritual life, and a watchful, honest, active oversight of all one's mental attitudes towards things and people. It is not to be learned by world-flight, running away from things, turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, one must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind."

Eckhart, Meister on prayer
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"There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence."

Eckhart, Meister on present   

"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

Cocteau, Jean on music
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"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort."

Cocteau, Jean on escapism
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"If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it."

Cocteau, Jean on asceticism   

"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder."

Cohen, Leonard on childhood   

"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

Eckhart, Meister on knowledge   

"The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed."

Kierkegaard, Søren on indolence
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on addiction
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"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."

Kierkegaard, Søren on personality
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"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you."

Holiday, Billie on addiction
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing."

Kierkegaard, Søren on purity
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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."

Johnson, Samuel on melancholy   

"Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on melancholy
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"Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me."

Eckhart, Meister on god