"You've always been free. You've always been bright and shining. Everything else is just nonsense."
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"The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines."
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"In the broken places, the light shines through."
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"It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now."
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"You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines."
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"Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart."
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"Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you."
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"Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat."
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"This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star."
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"The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations."
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"Truly happy memories always live on, shining. Over time, one by one, they come back to life."
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"Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear Realization of the Truth, your Real Self will come shining through."
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"What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world."
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"Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them."
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"Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable."
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"Better to illuminate than merely to shine."
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"The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross."
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"Let us make hay while the sun shines."
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"The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken."
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"It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars."
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