A Quote by Hazrat Inayat Khan

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Hazrat Inayat Khan
Indian - Priest
July 5, 1882 - February 5, 1927

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Steven Rose

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

Andy Partridge

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Zadie Smith

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Dorothy Day

There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Jim Gaffigan

I keep thinking of Robert Stone making the distinction between the word sublime and the word beautiful. He described being in a battle as sublime. Because even though people were dying, it was such a huge sensory experience that it became sublime.

George Saunders

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Gretchen Rubin

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Sarah Palin

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Michael Crichton

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Brian Schweitzer

The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!

Anna Silk

This is the great challenge: to maintain passion for the everyday routine and the endlessly repeated act, to derive deep gratification from the mundane.