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" I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things. "

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" There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. "

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" Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private. "

" I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. "

" I simply do not distinguish between work and play. "

" So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray. "

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" Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. "

" I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write. "

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