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From Erich Fromm, the deeply influential psychological and philosophical writer, teacher and practicing psychologist…

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?”

- Erich Fromm (1900-1980)

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Like most all of the truly paramount aspects of our lives, we have found that this one is best practiced on a daily basis…

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."

- Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983)

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Independence Day. Our tribute to the British Colonies' many wise and brave troublemakers…

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramhansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi, (published in 1946), shares the rationale for honest and courteous communication, as expressed by his teacher, Sri Yukteswar.

“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeons knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”

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A thought on stone transcendence from the author of The Little Prince…

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

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How much easier it is to see other’s beliefs as illusions than it is to see this with our own beliefs.

“My illusions – apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them – are not, like the religious ones, incapable of correction.”

- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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A more elevated form of greatness…

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in right use of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

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