“Then come out," said the king, helping him, "knowing you'll never die of a fall unless the god himself drops you.”
Source: The King of Attolia
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“If you drop desires, you'll never have a Salk vaccine.”
Dennis Prager: A Profile/David Margolis.com http://www.davidmargolis.com/article.php?id=41, 1992.
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by Norodom Sihanouk in 1996
[Jason Barber, http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/royal-trumps-table-aces-sleeve, Royal trumps on the table, aces up the sleeve, 22 March 1996, 29 August 2015, Phnom Penh Post]
“Who can know heaven except by its gifts? and who can find out God, unless the man who is himself an emanation from God?”
Quis cœlum possit nisi cœli munere nosse?
Et reperire deum nisi qui pars ipse deorum est?
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Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage
Vol. XI, p. 242
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot. In the same way, can you totally drop hate, envy, pride of possession, attachment to beliefs, to opinions, to ideas, to a particular way of thinking? Can you drop all that in an instant? There is no “how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity. To drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die — to die every day, every moment. If there is the coming to an end of all ambition from moment to moment, then you will know the extraordinary state of being nothing, of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement, as it were, and dropping over the edge — which is death. I want to know all about death, because death may be reality; it may be what we call God — that most extraordinary something that lives and moves and yet has no beginning and no end.
“The Shift is coming. The Shift has to be coming. Because if you keep living like this you'll die.”
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story