“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”
Frank McCourt (1930–2009) Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
“For years your treasure has been in the Stock Exchange, or the House of Commons, or the Salon, or the reviews that "really count" (if they still exist), or the drawing-rooms of Mayfair; and thither your heart perpetually tends to stray. Habit has you in its chains. You are not free.”
— Evelyn Underhill, book Practical Mysticism
Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter V, Self Adjustment, p. 84
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