"I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect."
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"In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October."
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"Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible."
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"I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world."
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"Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be."
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"A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger."
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"Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes."
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"An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done."
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"Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle."
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"We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps."
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"Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life ... everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening."
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"When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist."
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"There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, «Where are you going?» and the first man replies, «I don't know! Ask the horse!» This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless."
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"I think there’s a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change."
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"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
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"May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world."
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"Hip-hop is universal now, it's all commercial now. It's like a circle full of circus clowns up in the circuit now."
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"We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal."
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"In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure."
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"I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?"
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