"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."
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"Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness."
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"Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful."
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"Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self."
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"Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways."
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"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
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"If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed."
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"Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined."
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"Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope."
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"To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses."
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"I think that in order to struggle you have to be creative. In my life, creativity has been something that has sustained me; it awoke my spiritual struggle."
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"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character."
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"If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along."
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"The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."
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"As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect of my life was necessary and perfect. Each step eventually led to a higher place, even though these steps often felt like obstacles or painful experiences."
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"There is no better means of attainment to the spiritual life Than by continually beginning again."
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"The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity."
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"I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery."
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"The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble."
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"What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world."
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