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- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: american
- Born: September 26, 1888
- Died: January 4, 1965
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Meditate but one hour upon the self’s nonexistence and you will feel yourself to be another man,” said a priest of the Japanese Kusha sect to a Western visitor.
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