The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the most intense activity, and in the midst of the most intense activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Swami Vivekananda

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Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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