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Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.

Ernest Wood

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.

Ernest Wood

It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.

Ernest Wood

Ernest Wood

Ernest Wood

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Born: August 18, 1883

Died: September 17, 1965 (aged 82)

Bio: Ernest Egerton Wood was a noted English yogi, theosophist, Sanskrit scholar, and author of numerous books, including Concentration An Approach to Meditation, Yoga and The Pinnacle of Indian Thought.

Known for:

Concentration: An Approach to Meditation (1900)
The seven rays (1925)
Seven schools of yoga (1931)
Great systems of yoga (1954)
Zen dictionary (1962)

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