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«We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.»

Author: Alan Watts (Interpreter, Thinker, Writer) | Keywords: conceptions, concert, concerts, courteous, fascination, fascinations, in concert, meditation, somewhat, suspend, suspending, symbolic, symbols, verbal

«Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp»

Author: Heinrich Heine (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: Apocalypse, coo, cooing, Coos, Cupids, doves, prophet, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, rumblings, Saint John, symbols, The Prophet

«When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result»