"Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil."
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"What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government."
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"I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity."
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"Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment."
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"Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there."
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"To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment."
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"I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place."
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"To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking."
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"Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends."
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"I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need."
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"I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention."
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"Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have."
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"To heal my wounds, I need to be brave enough to face them."
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"To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies"
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"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."
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"It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God."
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"The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life."
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"He needs both patience and speed."
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"In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation."
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"I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing."
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