Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, p. 5
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
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Part of his public message upon arrival on his second visit to America (19 May 1932).
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“One can transform a place by reading in it.”
Private Reading, p. 152.
A History of Reading (1996)
“Democracy is a garden that has to be tended.”
Remarks during conference held on March 6, 2019 by Qualtrics, a tech company in Salt Lake City. As quoted in the March 7, 2019 article " Obama warns that if the world isn't careful, democracy could be in danger: 'Democracy is a garden that has to be tended' https://web.archive.org/web/20191127211836/https://www.businessinsider.de/obama-issued-a-warning-on-the-political-climate-i-like-the-rule-of-law-democracy-competency-and-facts-those-things-arent-partisan-but-they-also-dont-happen-auatomatically-2019-3?r=US&IR=T" by Business Insider Deutschland author Julie Bort.
2019
“It's a big garden — I've tended only one corner of it.”
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: The Spiral Dance is a seed planted twenty years ago. Over the last two decades, the goddess movement has grown from many seeds like a garden of long-life flowers and healing herbs. It's a big garden — I've tended only one corner of it.
A New Slant on Life (1998).