"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
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"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
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"All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself."
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"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
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"Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart."
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"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
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"And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees."
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"Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom."
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"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent."
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"How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream."
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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
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"joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
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"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."
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"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
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"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness."
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"Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery."
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"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
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"Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature."
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"When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty."
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"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."
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