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“After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.”

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Huston Smith

Huston Smith, an American religious philosopher, was born on May 31, 1919, and passed away on December 30, 2016. He is renowned for his extensive research on world religions and has authored classic works such as 'The World's Religions,' which has had a profound impact on global religious culture. more

“Should at that moment the full moon Step forth upon the hill, And memories hard to bear at noon, By moonlight harder still, Form in the shadows of the trees, - Things that you could not spare And live, or so you thought, yet these All gone, and you still there, A man no longer what he was, Not yet the thing he planned.”

Men Should Stills Hard Moments Light Form Memories Steps Gone Tree Bears Moon Shadow Harder Hills That Moment Spares Moonlight Noon Full Moon

Book:Wine from these grapes

Source: Wine from these grapes

“The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.”

Should Ideas Philosophy Pain Remember Values Memories Masters Judgment Gains Should Have Silly No Pain Muster Zen Master Concussions Right Ideas No Pain No Gain

Author:Kenny Smith

“To some extent, I have only lived to have something to outlive. By confiding these futile remembrances to paper, I am conscious of accomplishing the most important act of my life. I was predestined to Memory.”

Important Memories Paper Conscious Remembrance Predestined Confiding

Author:Oscar Milosz

“I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.”

Thinking World Heart Made I Can Dream Lost Change Memories Reflection Lovely Enjoyed Recalls Never Quit

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.”

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Author:Gaston Bachelard

“There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.”

Names Nature Memories Study Affection

Author:Charles Nodier

“He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.”

Seems Wanted Memories Justice Cracks Pretending Instruction Telephones Coffins

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“Meek Walton's heavenly memory.”

Memories Heavenly Meek

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

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