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"When we are high up, everything looks very small. Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important. We have left whatever we won or lost down below. From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon."
"A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror."
"Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties."
"A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. he can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects- but he'll never find God that way. God is here, right now, at our side. In order to find God, you have to only to look around."
"The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage."
"Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom."
"The journey towards the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Don't fool yourself: the moment will come where what seemed to be close to you is in fact still very far away."
"So the Warrior fights the Good Fight and he helps others, even though he does not quite understand why."
"Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons."
"When you find your way you cannot be scared. You need to be brave enough to take wrong steps. The deceptions, failures, lack of enthusiasm, are tools that God places in our way to reveal the path."
"The Good Fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams."
"He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove."
"Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
"He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
"The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form."
"Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope."
"I've always wanted to be part of something that would radically change the world. . . . People forget the power of inspiration. All of humanity went to the moon with the Apollo missions. The issue was cost. There was no chance to build a base and create frequent flights. That's the problem I would like to solve."
"By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better."
"The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze."
"Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation."
