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Page xxxi
... rest of the organism to react against the tyranny of the brain . And as the normal human motives lost their force , what he calls " the Buddhist tendency in me " gathered strength year by year , until , like some strange misgrowth , it ...
... rest of the organism to react against the tyranny of the brain . And as the normal human motives lost their force , what he calls " the Buddhist tendency in me " gathered strength year by year , until , like some strange misgrowth , it ...
Page 27
... rest ? Mere shadow , pretext , figure , sym- bol , or dream . Consciousness alone is immortal , positive , perfectly real . The world is but a firework , a sublime phantasmagoria , destined to cheer and form the soul . Consciousness is ...
... rest ? Mere shadow , pretext , figure , sym- bol , or dream . Consciousness alone is immortal , positive , perfectly real . The world is but a firework , a sublime phantasmagoria , destined to cheer and form the soul . Consciousness is ...
Page 336
... rest by imitation and contagion . A great faith is but a great hope which becomes certitude as we move farther and farther from the founder of it ; time and distance strengthen it , until at last the passion for knowledge seizes upon it ...
... rest by imitation and contagion . A great faith is but a great hope which becomes certitude as we move farther and farther from the founder of it ; time and distance strengthen it , until at last the passion for knowledge seizes upon it ...
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