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Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like a bandit - will behave like one, always remaining one county o...more

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I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

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You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands ...more

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Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edg...more

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You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.

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I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should ...more

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The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - ju...more

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When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you...more

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Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets...more

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The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.

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Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

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But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comforting cycle of family and continuity? What if you s...more

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So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only t...more

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The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words ...more

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Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the "monkey mind"--the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch...more