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“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.”

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Book:Freedom, Love, and Action

Source: Freedom, Love, and Action

“Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.”

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Book:The Works of the English Poets

Source: The Works of the English Poets

“The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.”

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Book:Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

Source: Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”

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Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood.”

Source: An Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, etc

“The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.”

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Book:Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959

Source: Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959