Quote#Truth
Everywhere there are people who think they are so busy and so wise...…
Quote byCharles Webster Leadbeater · 1854–1934
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Talks on At the Feet of the Master (1922).
English (original)
Everywhere there are people who think they are so busy and so wise... And yet the truth IS that all of these are working in the unreal and the outer, they have not, most of them, even realised that there is an inner and spiritual world which is of enormously more importance, of far greater value in every way, than this which is external. (First Talk)
— Charles Webster Leadbeater
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