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“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?”

Should Age Dies Strange Poet Eternal Ordinary Privilege Thank God Ugliness Mystic Ephemeral

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“The progressive growth of the finite consciousness of man towards this Self, towards the universal , the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existance.”

“The ordinary man says in his ignorance, "My religion is the sole religion, my religion is the best." But when his heart is illuminated by the true knowledge, he knows that beyond all the battles of sects and of sectaries presides the one, indivisible, eternal and omnipresent Benediction.”

Knows Men Heart Ignorance Battle Eternal Ordinary Sole Sects Ordinary Man Indivisible True Knowledge Benediction

Author:Ramakrishna

“How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.”

People Soul Hate Simple Attitude Nice Blood Eternal Ordinary I Hate Lists My Soul Ordinary People Loathe Ordinariness

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.”

Thinking Mind Self Remember Eternal Perception Ordinary Vivid Vividness

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars”

Stars Eternal Ordinary Machinery

Book:Beautiful Losers

Source: Beautiful Losers

“The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.”

Source: Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great

“Ironically, brothers and sisters, the natural man who is so very selfish in so many ordinary ways is strangely unselfish in that he reaches for too few of the things that bring real joy. He settles for a mess of pottage instead of eternal joy.”

Men Way Real Joy Natural Brother Eternal Ordinary Selfish Mess Settling Brothers And Sisters Unselfish Real Joy

Author:Neal A. Maxwell