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You must take a definite idea, set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your furthest thoughts in such a way that they are all closely linked with the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies. Rudolf Steiner

Great Thoughts You Thinking Way Furthest Definite Must Logically Physical Minute Only Take Idea Importance Arrange Linked Closely Rhythm Centre Then Bodies Your Such A Way Original Original Idea Even Set

I have often called attention to the fact that walking through the streets in the Middle Ages was a different experience from nowadays. Right and left, there were house facades that were built out of what the soul felt and thought. Every key, every lock, carried the imprint of the person who had made it. Rudolf Steiner

Soul Experience Key Thought Made Nowadays Every Lock Carried Out Fact Through Had Attention House Felt Built Were Left Imprint Walking Person Often Middle Different Middle Ages Ages Who Right Streets

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. Simone Weil

Faith Reality Made Mysteries Negation Degraded Object Contemplation Affirmation Should

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. Simone Weil

Others Ourselves Degradation Hurtful Bear Which Act

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. Simone Weil

Destination Progress Poison Nothing Other Idea Contrary Than Anything Origin

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Simone Weil

Life Needs History Imagination Fabric Indirect Crowd Compulsion Never Because Always Real Materials Influence Dynamic Social Interests Social Life Conscious

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. Simone Weil

Listening Compassion Affliction Difficult Someone Know Him Listen Just Really

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. Simone Weil

Needs Equality Degree Manners Recognition Attention Institutions Equal Principle Due Effectively Human Human Beings Public Beings Expressed

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil

Intelligence Human Being Whatever Entire Human Being

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. Simone Weil

Work Spirituality Lies Civilization True Contemporary True Greatness Greatness Form Founded

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. Simone Weil

Paradise Hell Must Real Prefer Imaginary

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. Simone Weil

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Simone Weil

Destruction Past Crimes Perhaps Greatest

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it. Slavoj Zizek

Reality Think Secretly About Exists Speculate

One can advise comfortably from a safe port. Soren Kierkegaard

Safe Advise Comfortably Port

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. Sri Aurobindo

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. Sri Aurobindo

God People Laughs Would Some Never Devout Listen Imagine

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees and houses and other objects; it is a plane of consciousness within us. Seekers of the eternal Truth will realise their eternal Heaven within their aspiring hearts. Sri Chinmoy

Truth God Will Country Other Trees Distant High Seekers Above Objects Houses Within Hearts Heaven Where Realise Eternal Plane Far Far Away Us Aspiring Deep Away Consciousness

All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar. Sri Chinmoy

Game Heart Joy Universe Softness Tremendous Our Constant Outer All-Around Cosmic Delight Absolutely Takes Feel Around Does Intensity Burn Realisation Place Manifesting Us Full Play Inner Necessity

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. Sun Tzu

War Country Never Protracted Been Which

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. Sun Tzu

Enemy Must Perceive Advantage Also Rewards Them Defeating

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity. Sun Tzu

Money Long Our Distaste Soldiers Longevity Because Riches Lives

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