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“If the goal is to realize the Supreme Being, you should become egoless. That requires self-effort. The sadhak should work hard. He should pray sincerely for the removal of the negative tendencies. This prayer is not to achieve anything or to fulfill any desires. It is to go beyond all achievements. It is to transcend all desires.”

Ifs Should Self Hard Desire Goal Realizing Prayer Effort Achieve Hard Work Praying Achievement Negative Excellence Supreme Tendencies Sincerely Removal Supreme Being

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.”

Use Past Memories Pleasure Achievement Harmony Supreme Wander Witness Gathering Innate Folds Suspended

Book:Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951

Source: Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951

“There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.”

Ifs Doe Two Reason Lasts Numbers Steps Limits Achievement Infinite Supreme Recognition Realising Excess

Author:Blaise Pascal

“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.”

“If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.”

Ifs Humans Looks May Has Beens Jobs Universe Wish Human Beings Records Fate Worst Design Achievement Lonely Supreme Chosen Cosmos Nightmare Providence Organisms Worst Nightmares

Author:Bill Bryson

“It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.”

May Universe Worst Achievement Supreme Nightmare Worst Nightmares

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it. ... In art nothing worth doing can be done without genius; in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.”

Men Art Done Science Genius Thousand Achievement Capacity Accounts Method Supreme Shoulders Invention One Man Moderates Predecessors Successors

Book:Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Source: Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

“Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.”

People Knows Doe Goal Laughing Cry Achievement Photography Highest Aim Photographer Supreme Making People Laugh Chaplin Personal Achievement Make Someone Laugh

Author:Elliott Erwitt

“It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.”

May Two Three Literature Lost Taken Type Achievement Accepted Supreme Paradise Poetic

Book:The Lyric: An Essay

Source: The Lyric: An Essay

“The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.”

Way Firsts Humans Has Beens Form Used Effort Talent Produce Genius Achievement Ambition Intellectual Supreme Block

Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture