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The Cloud of Unknowing

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I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem

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The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans by Kōun Yamada

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At work, at rest, never stop trying to realize who it is that hears. Even though your questioning becomes almost unconscious, you won’t find one who hears, and all your efforts will come to naught. Yet sounds can be heard, so question ...more

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Patrick Lu’s Quotes

“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: principle, style

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“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: contentment, poverty, riches

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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

tags: inspirational, motivational

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“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism

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