"Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success."
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"If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices."
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"We learn to be right and to make everyone else wrong. The need to be right is the result of trying to protects the image we want to project to the outside. We have to impose our way of thinking, not just onto other humans, but even upon ourselves."
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"Love does not want or fear anything."
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"God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself."
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"YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRIT Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art."
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"All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story on others or to defend what we believe. Instead we see all of us as artists with the right to create our own art."
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"If you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself."
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"Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward"
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"The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it."
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"The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves."
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"Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me."
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"Return to the purity of your innocence where you are enchanted with life. Give love for no reason. Surround yourself with others doing the same."
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"You have to stand up and be a human. You have to honor the man or woman that you are. Respect your body, enjoy your body, love your body, feed, clean, and heal your body. Exercise and do what makes your body feel good. This is a puja to your body, and that is a communion between you and God. . . . When you practice giving love to every part of your body, you plant seeds of love in your mind, and when they grow, you will love, honor, and respect your body immensely."
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"Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment."
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"Gossiping has become the main form of communication in human society. It has become the way we feel close to each other, because it makes us feel better to see someone else feel as badly as we do. There is an old expression that says, 'Misery likes company,' and people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone."
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"Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit."
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"What I have most learned from my son is to respect him and to love him unconditionally. I believe that if parents respect their children and educate them with love and justice (and not just with words, but with their own behavior) the relationship with their children will be wonderful. Then parents will always be proud of their children, and children will always be proud of their parents. There will be peace in the family, and the home will be a sanctuary."
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"There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are."
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"...What you are is a force--a force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream...You are life"
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