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"Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?" – Lord Byron, 'The Corsair' (1814).
"An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it." – Alistair Cooke
"Symbolically, Ganesha represents the basic unity of the macrocosm and microcosm, the immense being (the elephant) and the individual being (man). This highly implausible identity is however a fundamental reality and the key to all mystic or ritual experience as well as to Yogic possibilities. Without being aware of Ganesha, and without worshipping him, no accomplishment is possible." – Alain Daniélou, 'Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus' (1992).
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