"I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child."
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"Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom."
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"Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king"
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"Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved."
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"Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared."
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"Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite."
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"Days are coloured bubbles that float upon the surface of fathomless nights."
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"I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing."
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"Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself."
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"When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy."
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"The singer alone does not make a song, there has to be someone who hears. -Broken Song"
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"Thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still there is room to fill."
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"Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight."
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"There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal."
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"[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy"
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"The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy."
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"I thought that my invincible power would hold the world captive, leaving me in a freedom undisturbed. Thus night and day I worked at the chain with huge fires and cruel hard strokes. When at last the work was done and the links were complete and unbreakable, I found that it held me in its grip."
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"Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment."
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"Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn."
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"Power said to the world, "You are mine." The world kept it prisoner on her throne. Love said to the world, "I am thine." The world gave it the freedom of her house."
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