"All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you."
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"Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest."
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
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"You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!"
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"In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn."
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"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
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"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
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"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
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"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."
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"Work is love made visible."
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"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."
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"The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him."
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"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
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"love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
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"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."
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"The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg."
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"In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
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"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
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"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."
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"Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness"
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