“Recollection, the art which the practical man is now invited to learn, is in essence no more and no less than the subjection of the attention to the control of the will.”
Source: Practical Mysticism (1914), Chapter IV, Meditation And Recollection, p. 69
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What moves derision than what claims respect.”
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