“Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.”
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“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 42
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