"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness."
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"Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow."
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"Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
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"The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature."
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"The curve of life is like the parabola of a projectile which, disturbed from its initial state of rest, rises and then returns to a state of repose... Like a projectile flying to its goal, life ends in death. Even its ascent and its zenith are only steps and means to this goal... For, enlightenment or no enlightenment, consciousness or no consciousness, nature prepares itself for death."
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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."
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"All true things must change and only that which changes remains true."
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"But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?"
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"The true leader is always led."
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"I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force."
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"Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer."
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"Wisdom accepts that all things have two sides"
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"Commendation heals; condemnation destroys."
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"Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning."
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"But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning — for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie."
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"You always become the thing you fight the most."
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"Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality."
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"Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world."
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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
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"What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]"
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