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“Neither Rose nor Charles liked to talk much of their adventures with the trolls, but some of the so-called "softskins" whom they had brought out of Niflheim, as well as the crew of the ship Soren h...”
“A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”
“The East has failed because it tried meditation without love. The West has failed because it tried love without meditation. My whole effort is to give you a synthesis, the wholewhich means meditati...”
“Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking needs to be amended,...”
“The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.”
“It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle....”
“I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.”
“The Sage's Wish: Like Sun, from the East, may you continue to rise, smile and shine.”
“The need has to be defined by an Individual. If the basic need of quenching thirst can be met by a glass of water, everything beyond that is indulgence. Ego makes organizations sell products and se...”
“She would search for him. In the land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. But there was no way there.”
“I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East.”
“Where is it?" I asked, willing him to tell me.He laughed suddenly, and I could hear the full-throated, grating sound of the white bear's laughter in it."East of the sun and west of the moon," he said.”
“But, for all that, there is a Beyond, and he who has once caught a glance of it, is like a man who has gazed at the sun wherever he looks, everywhere he sees the image of the sun. Speak to him of f...”
“But, for all that, there is a Beyond, and he who has once caught a glance of it, is like a man who has gazed at the sun —wherever he looks, everywhere he sees the image of the sun. Speak to him of ...”
