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Alexander's Achievement Was Not The Conquest Of India, But The Feat Of Actually Getting There And His Two Years In India Were More Of A Geographical Expedition Than A Military Campaign. .... A Greek Army Had Reached What They Regarded As The End Of The Earth. They Had Pitted Themselves Against The Ultimate As Bravely As The Yogins Had Struggled To Break Through The Limits Of The Human Psyche. Where Mystics Had Conquered Interior Space, Alexander Explored The Farthest Reaches Of The Physical World. .... Like Many Of The Axial Sages, He Was Constantly 'straining After More'.

Often When Religious Leaders Come Together, They Talk About A Particular Sexual Ethic, Or An Abstruse Doctrine, As Though This, Rather Than Compassion, Was The Test Of Spiritual Life.

I Am Continually Trying To Find Meaning In The World. If We Cannot Find Some Ultimate Significance Or Value In Our Lives, We Fall Very Easily Into Despair.

Compassion Is A Practically Acquired Knowledge, Like Dancing. You Must Do It And Practice Diligently Day By Day.

Some People Simply Bury Their Heads In The Sand And Refuse To Think About The Sorrow Of The World, But This Is An Unwise Course, Because, If We Are Entirely Unprepared, The Tragedy Of Life Can Be Devastating.