"Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are."
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"Find a teacher who is an integral being, a beacon who extends his light and virtue with equal ease to those who appreciate him and those who don't. Shape yourself in his mold, bathe in his nourishing radiance, and reflect it out to the rest of the world."
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"Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure."
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"Although most people spend their entire lives following this biological impulse (i.e. the sex drive), it is only a tiny portion of our beings. . . . If we remain obsessed with seeds and eggs, we are married to the fertile reproductive valley of the Mysterious Mother but not to her immeasurable heart and all-knowing mind."
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"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed."
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"To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!"
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"Kindness in thinking creates profoundness."
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"Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness."
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"It is wealth to be content."
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"Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health."
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"Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life."
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"Act without expectation."
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"The cords of passion and desire weave a binding net around you. Worldly confrontation makes you stiff and inflexible. The trap of duality is tenacious. Bound, rigid, and trapped, you cannot experience liberation."
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"Love the whole world as if it were your self; then you will truly care for all things."
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"The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced."
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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
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"Don't impose your will through manipulation of aggressive emotions and actions."
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"The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold."
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"Having reached a high level of realization (or having accomplished anything in life), don't get excited or puffed up with pride but remain calm, humble, and in "perfect equanimity" if you want to continue in this deep state of consciousness."
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"If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees."
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