"And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well."
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"Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past."
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"Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE."
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"Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible."
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"YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake."
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"We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow."
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"The realization of our soul has its moral and its spiritual side. The moral side represents training of unselfishness, control of desire; the spiritual side represents sympathy and love. They should be taken together and never separated. The cultivation of the merely moral side of our nature leads us to the dark region of narrowness and hardness of heart, to the intolerant arrogance of goodness; and the cultivation of the merely spiritual side of our nature leads us to a still darker region of revelry in intemperance of imagination."
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"The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth.""
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"Perhaps that dawn will come from this horizon, from the East where the sun rises. A day will come when unvanquished Man will retrace his path of conquest, despite all barriers, to win back his lost human heritage."
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"Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims"
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"The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual."
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"If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out."
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"Age considers; youth ventures."
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"You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long."
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"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
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"My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening."
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"Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories of the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across a hundred years."
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"And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act."
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"Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life."
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"If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves."
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