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These are the most-thumbed books in my collection and, believe it or not, both are replacements for earlier copies! The left hand one has at least once been found floating when I dozed off reading in the bath ,(which you can't do with a kindle!) and the other has been to Everest base camp (the route of that trek incidentally forms the cover illustration), having been bought 2nd hand in Kathmandu. I'll quote from Anagarika Govinda today….

"Movement is the nature of mind as much as it is the nature of light. All that tries to arrest, to hinder, or to confinr the free, infinite movement of the mind, is ignorance - whether it be caused by conceptual thoughts, desires, or attachments. Tranquillity is not standstill, it does not consist in stopping the mind, but in not obstructing its movement by artificial concepts"