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"Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you."
"There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence."
"You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility."
"Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence."
"I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to."
"Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself."
"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."
"We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence."
"The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor."
"It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence."
"I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you."
"Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again."
"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."
"The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust."
"In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist."
"Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?"
"Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way."
"When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed."
"Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being."
"The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery."
