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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that le...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own t...

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The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long...

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The humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to ...

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I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wo...

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Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew that he was dying... he simply did not, he could not poss...

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How can it be that I’ve never seen that lofty sky before? Oh, how happy I am to have found it at las...

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It was a world that most fans never saw. One that many dreamed of.

Truthis like a vast tree, which yields more and more fruit, the more you nurture it

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite

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Mahatma GandhiThe Story of My Experiments With Truth

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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Marianne WilliamsonA Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer wi...

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Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this

When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he ...

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Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till th...

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Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

People always want to define you by what you do. I started saying: ‘i am not too concerned with what...

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Shane ClaiborneThe Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully ...

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The thing that makes you say, "I want to do something" - that is the beginning of talent.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be p...

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Swami VivekanandaComplete Works of Swami Vivekananda

The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed...

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Swami VivekanandaComplete Works of Swami Vivekananda

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free...

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When I speak of good hearing, I do not mean listening to others; I mean simply listening to yourself...

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When you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, the day will come when you can do th...

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For man, mind is the cause of bondage and mind is the cause of liberation. Mind absorbed in sense ob...

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O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in du...

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For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation,...

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Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved per...

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My dear Arjuna, only by undivided devotional service can I be understood as I am, standing before yo...

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Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happines...

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Because materialists cannot understand Krsna spiritually, they are advised to concentrate the mind o...

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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic co...

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AberjhaniSplendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new k...

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Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers....

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In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all...

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Enlightenment gives profound joy of the heart and a great love for the fellow beings.

The dancing Sun the dancing moon the dancing stars and the dancing galaxies are the direct expressio...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

We live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance.

Highest miracle is to discover who you are – the ultimate possibility.

Raise you awareness and share your uniqueness to the world.

Enlightenment is making every cell, gene and DNA as the radiator of peace and harmony.

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and cel...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not t...

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Education is that process by which thought is opened out of the soul, and, associated with outward ....

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part o...

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If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...

You never knelt to get anywhere. You are where you are because you're fucking capable, and willing t...

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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

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Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own bei...

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Bruce LeeStriking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

He was home, but he wasn't. He had gotten where he had to go, but he hadn't. He had found out who he...

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Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, b...

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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By chang...

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Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remark...

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

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he w...

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The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster hi...

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To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of ...

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The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a sol...

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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. I...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Things change everyday. With each new dawn, it is not the same world as before. And you’re not the s...

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I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really un...

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