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Even monks and nuns can lose the energy of a deep experience, but it is much more difficult for lay people to retain it. In Chan there is a verse:

They remained some days in Lothlórien, so far as they could tell or remember. All the while that they dwelt there the sun shone clear, save for a gentle rain that fell at times, and passed away leaving all things fresh and clean. The air was cool and soft, as if it were early spring, yet they felt about them the deep and thoughtful quiet of winter. It seemed to them that they did little but eat and drink and rest, and walk among the trees; and it was enough.

“Another word for creativity is courage.”

« So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings. »

“The more questions of money dominate, the quicker the spirit of loyalty disappears.”

“The less somebody knows and understands himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent.”

“My spirit is too weak — mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.”