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Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everythi...

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The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or hear...

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It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a promine...

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Until I was twenty I was sure there was a being who could see everything I did and who didn't like m...

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Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's gett...

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It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined ...

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Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and...

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One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discove...

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Sebastian just smiled. “I could hear your heart beating,” he said softly. “When you were watching me...

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Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history whe...

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He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must ...

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Odysseus draped the towel over his shoulders and stretched his back. "You remember practicing with w...

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That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It...

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There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

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Eckhart TolleThe Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all...

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No two person, ever read the same book.

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they...

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When did my youth slip away from me? I suddenly thought. It was over, wasn't it? Seemed just like ye...

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There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me ...

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Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

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Iris MurdochExistentialists and Mystics Writings on Philosophy and Literature

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

the only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution...

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In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is the...

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Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, whe...

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When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, ...

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I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an...

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A kind of joy came upon him, as if borne in on a summer breeze. He dimly recalled that he had been t...

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We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortga...

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This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air th...

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Neil GaimanThe Good Fairies of New York

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist...

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He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must h...

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A fancy comes to me--that desire can never attain its object--it need never attain it.

There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would b...

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I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...