The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou … - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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We are not really separate beings of light. That's a dream we are having, the dream of multiplicity. Meditation takes us beyond the moment to eternal awareness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

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