Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

Jacques Barzun
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  1. The philosophic outlook rises above all sectarian controversy. It finds its own position not only by appreciating and synthesizing what is solidly based in the rival sects but also by capping them all with the keystone of nonduality.

  2. Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

  3. When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

  4. He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

  5. Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

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