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"Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so man..."

"A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effec..."

"Most often, what I don’t know will have a vastly greater bearing on my life that what I do know."

"In saying the word ‘Sachchidanand’ [sat-chit-anand, eternal knowledge and vision leading to bliss], it has great ‘effect’. There is an ‘effect’ even when it is said without the understanding [of it’s ..."

"Ignorance’ (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and ‘Knowledge’ (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations."

"The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. T..."

"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."

"The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion."

"Attachment-abhorrence is an ‘effect’ and ignorance (of the self) is the ‘cause’!"

"I look up at the painting. It's not even that interesting. Definitely doesn't grab me and shake my brain around like the meadow scene did."