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Novelist, Poet

The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.

Constitution - Living - Mystery

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Ovid

Psychologist, Poet, Poet

The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

Contemplation - Hopelessness - Mindset - Sickness - Suffering

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Breathing - Crying - Death - Disease - Eternity - Feelings - Grief - Hearing - India - Insult - Joy - Story - Youth

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

Breathing - Consciousness - Force - Key - Mindset - Thinking - Transformation

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Man - Mindset - Mystery

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William Faulkner

Writer

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

Memory - Past - Sweet - Treasure

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Alain de Botton

Philosopher, Author

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and anxiety, because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Anxiety - End - Sensitivity - Sweet - Thinking - Weakness

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the eternal pattern of the human "we", especially of that "we" formed by the man and the woman created in the divine image and likeness... Man is created "from the very beginning" as male and female: the life of all humanity - whether of small communities or of society as a whole - is marked by this primordial duality.

Eternity - Faith - Female - Human - Inspiration - Male - Man - Mystery - Whole

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Marvel - Mystery

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Mystery - Secrets - Vices

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Mankind - Mystery - Mysticism - Spiritual

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

Mountain - Music

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained him. Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!

Man - Sweet - Waiting

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Charlotte Bronte

Novelist, Poet

I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.

Breathing - Care - Certainty - Feelings - Force - Influence - Kindness - Meaning - Remembering - Repetition - Spelling - Taste - Thinking

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Bertrand Russell

Philosopher, Writer, Activist

There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the “intellectual love of God.” Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them too feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it: when I speak, they stare, applaud, or smile, but do not understand.

Belief - Feelings - Human - Kindness - Knowledge - Mindset - Mystery - Mysticism - Speaking - Strength

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Epictetus

Clergyman, Philosopher, Philosopher

Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.

Customs - Sweet

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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Arguing - Grandchildren - Literature - Sweet

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

Contemplation - Pure - Soul

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me.

Contemplation - Praying

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David Hume

Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Essayist

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Contemplation - Mindset - Philosophy

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