"Whatever you do in your business comes out of a state of inner alignment with life and the source of life itself, so peace flows into whatever you do."
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"It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life."
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"The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so."
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"Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die."
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"Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us."
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"In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene."
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"No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state."
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"Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success."
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"Sadness is a state of sin."
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"Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property."
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"Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present."
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"Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!"
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"Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."
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"Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness."
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"Happy! That is indefinable as far as states of being go."
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"Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death."
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"The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children."
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"Life in its highest state is understanding."
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"The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state"
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"War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale."
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