This mini-blog is just to record short quotes of Yogananda and Kriyananda in a less formal manner than the
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“ Oct. 5. Learn when to stop whatever you are doing. If speaking, learn to stop when you’ve said enough. If writing, don’t drag on past the point you are making. In both cases, people often think, “If I can say just a little more, I’ll convince a few more people.” After driving your listeners to the top of a cliff, however, all you can do, further, is push them over the edge. Stop also when you feel you’ve done enough. After writing a little over 400 pieces of music, I felt I’d said what I’d wanted to say in that medium. That was over ten years ago, and since then I’ve not written a note. If ever I decide I have more to say, I’ll say it; otherwise, it’s better to remain silent. After taking some 15,000 photographs, I decided that was enough. For some time I took my camera with me to beautiful places, including the famous Engadine valley in Switzerland, but throughout my week there I never once took the camera out of my suitcase.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well
