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Peter Kingsley is a British author born in 1953. His works primarily focus on philosophy, history, and religion, known for their unique perspective and in-depth research.

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“The rules are simple. Prepare in silence. Train in stillness. Strain as much as possible to become worthy of facing the impossible. Maybe you'll be unlucky, or lucky, enough to be chosen but the chances are you won't. It's much more likely someone else will be picked who is far simpler and purer than you, untrained, unprepared: the timeliest reminder of what matters most. Intelligence, everything anyone would think of as intelligence, is entirely irrelevant. It's just a question of being empty enough to transmit the will of the gods.”

Silence Calling Stillness

Book:A Book of Life

Source: A Book of Life

“[T]he song of the Sufis, once it starts, never ends. There is a traditional saying that you should never waste your time trying to find real Sufis because they are the ones who will find you. And this turned out to be perfectly true.”

Sufism Sufi Way Sufi Path

Book:A Book of Life

Source: A Book of Life

“Anyone who identifies with the body while alive will identify with it when it dies. And that's the end of their story. But whoever stays alive while the body dies instead of going unconscious realizes how much has been lost, knows at first hand what it means to be a human and sees the purpose of the body and understands how necessary it is.”

Spirituality

Book:A Book of Life

Source: A Book of Life

“[E]ach culture is just like a tree whose essence and whole potential are already contained in the seed. Nothing during the course of a civilization is ever discovered, or invented, or created, which was not already present inside that seed.”

Reality Civilization Cultural Evolution

Book:A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World

Source: A Story Waiting to Pierce You: Mongolia, Tibet and the Destiny of the Western World

“If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.”

Ifs Way Littles Long Faces Speak Voice Teach Sadness Longing

Book:In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Source: In the Dark Places of Wisdom

“Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.”

World Turns Upside Down Inconvenient

Book:Reality

Source: Reality

“For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of global extinctions. But always there are people who know how to gather the essence of life and hold it safely, protect it and nurture it until the next seeding.”

People Knows Years Has Beens Ends Next Know How Civilization Protect Understood Essence Nurture Extinction Essence Of Life

Author:Peter Kingsley

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Born: 1953
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A Book of LifeRelated source material

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