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“I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.”

Stills Artist Edges Admire Ageing Retaining

Author:Paul McGann

“Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical.”

People Giving Wells Stills Spiritual Practice Yoga Rounds Edges Karma Egotistical Spiritual Practice Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.”

“Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.”

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”

“Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.”

Men Feels Humans Stills Opportunity Ability Race Possibility He Man Edges Graves Giants Sprouts Acorns

Book:The Miracle of Right Thought

Source: The Miracle of Right Thought