"And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living."
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"We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!"
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"It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth."
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"Why stay on the earth except to grow."
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"Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth."
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"If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth."
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"It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth."
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"What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth."
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"We cannot make a heaven on earth, though we may make a hell."
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"When you are dead, seek for your resting place not in the earth, but in the hearts of men."
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"I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain."
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"Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move."
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"I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants."
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"Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing."
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"The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines."
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"We went to the moon and discovered Earth."
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"Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth's surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?"
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"Now Bella, you know Jacob adores you. He naturally wants to protect you. He literally worships the ground you walk on." "Ha ha," Bella said dryly. "Earth demon. Worship the ground. Cute. Really cute."
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"I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum"
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"A way foolishness has of revenging itself is to excommunicate the world."
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