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Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Plutarch
Great Aim Those Must Also Greatly Who Deeds Suffer
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord. Plutarch
Music Health Medicine Harmony Must Examine Investigate Discord Disease Produce Create
I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form. Ramana Maharshi
You Guru Never He Call Said Human Depends Form Human Form Need
There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion. Ramana Maharshi
Illusion Doubt Universe No Doubt Whatsoever
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception. Ramana Maharshi
Time Events Determined Through Conception Go Body Activities
Suffering turns men towards their creator. Ramana Maharshi
Suffering Men Towards Turns Creator
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness. Ramana Maharshi
Happiness Must Self Open His Order Store Realise
I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self. Ramana Maharshi
Self Perishable Am Eternal Body
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself. Ramana Maharshi
Best Meditation Way Best Way Through Itself Meditate
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. Robert M. Pirsig
Truth Best Good You Think Ought Tell Seeing Know Hindsight Scientific Always Scientific Method Go Method Traditional Been Testing Very Where
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. Robert M. Pirsig
People Other Through Unseen Passing Little Moments Keep Lives
The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you. Robert M. Pirsig
Funny You People Funny Thing Insane Insane People Kind About Envies Nobody Opposite Celebrity Being Thing
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling. Robert M. Pirsig
Truth You Looking Go Away Say Puzzling Knocks Go Goes Door Away Thing
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there. Robert M. Pirsig
Good You Nothingness Lying About No-One Talk Knows Because Always Zen
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. Roger Bacon
Mathematics Knowledge Science People Reckon Easiest Fact Count Almost Know Obvious Sciences How Mathematical Brain Which Us Requires Who Illiterate Things Utterly Innate Rejects
We can find Nature outside us only if we have first learned to know her within us. What is akin to her within us must be our guide. This marks out our path of enquiry. Rudolf Steiner
Nature Path First Our Guide Marks Out Must Find Only Outside Know Learned Within Us Her
The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality. Rudolf Steiner
Reality Organization Will Society Imagination Other Constructed Any Different Tolerate Societies Basis
Descriptions of inner, spiritual processes are much more liable to misunderstanding than descriptions of events in the physical world. Such misunderstandings arise easily because the life of the soul is in constant movement and because we fail to bear in mind that the life of the soul is very different from life in the physical world. Rudolf Steiner
Life Spiritual Soul World Events Mind Liable Easily Constant Physical More Physical World Bear Arise Fail Because Misunderstanding Misunderstandings Very Than Movement Different Processes Much Descriptions Inner
The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole. Rudolf Steiner
Life World Vision Try Living Unity Penetrate More Develop Withdraw Sciences Itself Themselves Separate Special Many Whole Each Each One Deeply
In ancient, prehistoric times, the temples of the spirit were outwardly visible, but today, when our life has become so unspiritual, they no longer exist where we can see them with our physical eyes. Yet spiritually they are still present everywhere, and whoever seeks can find them. Rudolf Steiner
Life Today Eyes Become Our Everywhere Visible Ancient Find Physical See Temples Spirit Seeks Spiritually Longer Still Were Exist Times Where Them Prehistoric Whoever Present
We must assimilate the thought that life between death and a new birth is so constituted that everything we do awakens an echo in the environment. Rudolf Steiner
Life Death Thought Birth Everything Must Echo Environment Between New Awakens Assimilate
Links are formed karmically on the earth and then continue between death and a new birth. Those who are able to see into the spiritual world perceive how the dead person gradually makes more and more links - all of which are the outcome of karmic connections formed on earth. Rudolf Steiner
Death Spiritual World Birth Earth Those Outcome See Able Perceive More More And More Spiritual World Between New Dead Makes How Continue Links Person Gradually Which Formed Then Karmic Who Connections
Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can know may be called 'anthroposophy.' Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual Man World About Through Know Learn Within His Anthropology Intellect May Whereas Senses Which Us
The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past. Rudolf Steiner
Time Conversation First Past Christianity Say Astrology Ancient Cosmic Rise Owed After Centuries Origin Whole Thing By The Time
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit. Rudolf Steiner
Spiritual Man Complicated Rest Sense Thinking Our Striving Spirit Insofar Points Observation He Most Well Scientific Pillars Departure Common Common Sense Workings Fundamental Conscious Two
Man only becomes independent of this physical world when he learns to consider the objects around him as symbols. He must, for this reason, seek to acquire a moral relationship to them. Rudolf Steiner
Relationship Man World Consider Independent Moral Must Physical Seek Objects Only Physical World He Him Around Becomes Learns Them Acquire Reason Symbols
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