"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness."
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"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
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"When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives."
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"He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ."
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"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
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"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."
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"Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you."
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"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone."
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"As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. When you act out the present-moment awareness, whatever you do becomes imbued with a sense of quality, care, and love - even the most simple action."
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"All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself."
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"See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness."
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"Man is a universe within himself."
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"The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual."
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"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul."
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"Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun."
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"At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it."
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"When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty."
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"I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect."
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"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
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"Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars."
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