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In that moment, of all my waking moments, I am very aware of being at the service of something; there is a machine in me, or I am a ghost in it.
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.”
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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
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“People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . . . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.”
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“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”
― The Doors of Perception
― The Doors of Perception
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