“The more you succeed in making out of yourself, the more bitter a thing it is to have to die.”
Robert Silverberg book The Book of Skulls
Source: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 15 (p. 62)
“If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.”
Revelation
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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Indian writer 1931–1987Related quotes
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Medio de fonte leporum
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As quoted in Congressional Record https://web.archive.org/web/20160528155427/http://history.house.gov/People/Detail/18846, House, 44th Cong., 1st sess. (7 June 1876): p. 3,669 <br class="br">Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives (1876)