To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts. Twilight of the Idols
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? Pride and Prejudice
Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake. Collected Works, vol. 11
“She said, ‘If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church.’ She was right. There was no way out.” Stranger
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