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"We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin."
- Watts, Alan W.

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/25912">We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7558/">Watts, Alan W.</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/meditation/">Meditation</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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