"The way to change others' minds is with affection, and not anger."
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"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
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"Come out of the circle of time And into the circle of love."
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"When the raindrop touches the ocean, can it tell a story."
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"All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary living has epic depth and lyric intensity, and this, their material handicap, is their spiritual advantage."
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"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
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"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."
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"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
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"All civil states, with their officers of justice, in their respective constitutions and administrations, are proved essentially civil, and therefore not judges, governors, or defenders of the spiritual, or Christian, state and worship."
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"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found."
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"One thing that the white man can never give the black man is self respect. The black man in the ghettos, have to start self correcting his own material moral, and spiritual defects, and evil. The black man need to start his own program to get rid of drunkenness, drug addiction and prostitution. The black man in America has to lift up his own sense of values."
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"All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction."
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"As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter."
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"My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time."
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"The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit."
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"Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others."
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"Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me."
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"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
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"As long as you ask questions you are breaking through, but the moment you begin to accept, you are psychologically dead. So right through life don't accept a thing, but inquire, investigate. Then you will find that your mind is something really extraordinary, it has no end, and to such a mind there is no death."
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"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
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