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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead"
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"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. – Albert Einstein"
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"If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well. - Rilke"
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"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Ward Beecher"
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"Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot. - Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising"
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"If we are going to frame well, our vision must provide a picture into which others can insert themselves. – Fairhurst and Sarr"
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"The greatest gift you can give the planet is to awaken and walk in Love."
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"There is nothing neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. - Shakespeare"
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"Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. - Rumi"
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"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. – Bob Hope"
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"The world is nothing but your own magnified mind."
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"You don’t have to make your family perfect, just make it wonderful. - Ken Jeong"
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"What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art; art is the gap. - Marcel Duchamp"
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"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75. - Benjamin Franklin"
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"You can only learn that you already are what you are looking for. All learning is remembering something that is already there, merely waiting to be discovered. All learning is nothing more than the removing of debris, until what remains is a radiant inner silence. Until you realize that you yourself are the origin of peace and love. - ascribed to Socrates"
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"Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us. – Leo Bucaglia"
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"All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of the atom to vibration. I must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. - Max Planck"
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"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. – Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. – Chuang-Tzu"
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"The most essential is to know oneself, and you cannot know yourself unless you shift your whole consciousness from doing to being."
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"My friends, remember this, there are neither bad herbs nor bad people. There are only bad gardeners. Mes amis, retenez ceci, il n'y a ni mauvaises herbes ni mauvais hommes. Il n'y a que de mauvais cultivateurs. – Victor Hugo"
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"It is not a matter of becoming but of Being. – Ramana Maharshi"
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If you feel unseen, remember that once you used to believe that invisibility was a superpower."
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"Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others. - Chögyam Trungpa"
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"The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others. – Austin Kleon"
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"If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be the height of confusion. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche"
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"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind [...]. – Romans 12:2, Bible"
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"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth – not going all the way, and not starting. - Siddhartha Gautama Buddha"
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"The fire of God fills the artist with holy pressure to turn the coal of matter into diamonds of art. – Alex Grey"
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"The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. - Socrates"
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"Authoritarian discipline which uses reward and punishment to force obedience and compliance is toxic, dysfunctional and dangerous. - Katherine Winter-Sellery"
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"Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryu Suzuki"
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"Darkness is not dispelled because the sun takes its place. It is the earth that turns towards the sun."
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"To use this human life for other than its true purpose [to achieve trivial aims ] is like filling a golden vessel with excrement. - Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche "
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"No work is more worthwhile than to be a sign of divine joy and a fountain of divine love. – Andrew Harvey"
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung"
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"Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realised. – Ramana Maharishi"
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"The richest person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least."
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"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot"
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"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self. – Albert Einstein"
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"In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen — really seen. — Brené Brown"
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"Thus the world comes to me, which I no longer seek outside, and lives in and in all things that are around me. - Clara Rilke-Westhoff"
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"Love is like a fart. If you have to force it it’s probably s***. – Stephen K. Amos"
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"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. - Picasso"
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"We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. - Robert Anton Wilson"
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"Remember that even if you were enlightened and highly realized you are a human being in this earthly realm after all."
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Find the love you seek,
by first finding the love within yourself.
Learn to rest in a place with you,
That is your true home.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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"In order to create we have to stand in that space between what we see in the world and what we hope for, looking squarely at rejection, at heartbreak, at war, at death. - Julie Burstein"
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"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes – ah, that is where the art resides. – Arthur Schnabel"
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"Recognize your godliness and then there is nothing to achieve. One has simply to start; one has to start to live. Live like a god."
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"Art is a meaning of communication far beyond language."
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"Examine yourself & understand who you are… Whoever does not know self, does not know anything. But, whoever knows self, has acquired the knowledge of the universe. - Jesus, Book of Thomas "
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"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anaïs Nin"
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"In the gap between thoughts non-conceptual wisdom shines continuously. - Milarepa"
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"To convince an audience that an illusion is real, the magician creates a plausible diversion. - Robert Preston, in the role of Carroll Todd, Victor/Victoria, 1982"
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"Sacrificing intellect beyond the pleasurable point of intelectualization as well as the emotional impulsive quality of wanting to exaggerate. - Chögyam Trungpa"
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"A storm comes and the whole tree trembles. It never goes to any saint to ask how not to tremble when a storm is passing by."
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"Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. -Longchenpa"
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"You can`t eat for eight hours a day - nor drink for eight hours a day - nor make love for eight hours a day - all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy. - William Faulkner"
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"You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it It's too bad that you want to be someone else You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours. - Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi"
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"The basis of freedom is recognition of the unconscious; the invisible dimension not yet realized, leaving a space for the new. - Norman O. Brown"
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"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn’t mean your behavior is acceptable. - Steve Maraboli"
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"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"
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"I and the father are one. – Jesus (John 10:30)"
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"Art means not knowing that the world already is, and making [one]. - Rainer Maria Rilke"
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"Let me ask you to remember some day that I have told you that the hatred of evil strengthens evil, and opposition reinforces what is opposed. This is a law of an exactitude equal with the laws of mathematics. - Ronald Fraser"
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What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
- Haruki Murakami
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"I is someone else. - Arthur Rimbaud"
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"A man’s life is nothing but an extended trek through the detours of art to recapture the one or two moments when his heart first opened. - Albert Camus"
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"I honor the One in you. When you are that, and I am that, our walls of separation cease to exist and we experience what we longed to experience."
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"One has to pay for truth, and there is no other way to pay for it: you have to put your whole being on the altar. That is the only sacrifice that is needed."
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"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"
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I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
- Janelle Monae
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"Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don’t believe the same things as you - Wangechi Mutu"
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"Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act. - Joseph Beuys"
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"It’s here in all the pieces of my shame That now I find myself again. I yearn to belong to something, to be contained In an all-embracing mind that sees me. . . – Rainer Maria Rilke"
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"What we are looking for is what is looking. - Francis of Assisi"
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"People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. – Thomas Merton"
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - R. Buckminster Fuller"
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"The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou"
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"Art is not a thing, it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard"
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"Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. - Chögyam Trungpa"
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"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. - George Bernhard Shaw"
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Don't malign others.
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When everything goes wrong, treat disaster as a way to wake up.
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In trust there is no doubt.
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Ego is an absence of awareness.
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Don't act with a twist.
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If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, kill Him.
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Art is a means of communication far beyond language.
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If you are totally aware, whatsoever you know is reality.
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The seeker is the sought.
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The most effective cure and healing occur when the patient decides to heal himself. – Hippocrates
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Don't expect any applause.
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.
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Abandon all hope of results.
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Have you worked out already today?
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Recognize your neurotic tendencies, overcome them, then transcend them.
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Accept good and bad fortune with an equal mind.
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When practicing unconditional acceptance, start with yourself.
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What is your original face before your parents were born?
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[...] I sing the body electric [...]. – Walt Whitman
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. ― James Baldwin
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At first, I saw mountains as mountains and rivers as rivers. Then, I saw mountains were not mountains and rivers were not rivers. Finally, I see mountains again as mountains, and rivers again as rivers.
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Who am I?
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Doubt is a symptom it is not the disease.
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Don't worry about other people.
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Don't be swayed by external circumstances.
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Don't feel sorry for yourself.
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Remain grounded in the realities of the relative world.
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You have been trained to doubt. You have been trained to always remain in control.
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Awareness is choiceless.
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
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Take all the blame yourself.
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To understand yourself is the beginning of wisdom. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
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If you don't become the ocean, you'be seasick every day. – Leonard Cohen
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But how can anyone buy or sell the earth - or what the earth has to offer?
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Watch the anger; don’t get identified with it.
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All activities should be done with one intention.
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Perfection is the purest of procrastination.
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Your kingdom is.
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Don't be jealous.
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You're dying to be certain.
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Authority is not granted, it is taken.
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All blocks exist because of deep-rooted desires to be something other than you can be.
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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Do you want to be healed?
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Don't wait in ambush.
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Has a dog the Buddha nature?
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Don't seek others pain as the limbs of your own happiness.
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Life is beautifully imperfect.
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What we are looking for is what is looking. - Francis of Assisi
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Be a light unto yourself. – Gautama Buddha
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
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Don't abuse your divine power for selfish reasons.
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To be free, to truly experience life, you must come out. – Michael A. Singer
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Don't put the yak's load on the cow.
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When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep.
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Work hard to be outcasted by human beings, so the divine will find you. – Kadampa saying
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You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.