"The world is not impermanent if one lives there after knowing God."
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"The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self."
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"The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words."
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"Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.... Do not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world."
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"There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?"
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"If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women."
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"Give anyone a lever long enough and they can change the world. It's unreliable levers that are the problem."
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"Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here."
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"Success is a label that the world confers on you, but mastery is an ever-onward 'almost.'"
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"Do not fear the digital world, it will not kill us all."
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"There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that."
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"Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal."
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"The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it."
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"The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was."
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"I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances."
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"When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer."
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"When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well."
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"All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority."
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"In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption."
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"'Why me?' rarely produces a positive result, while 'How can I use this?' usually leads us in the direction of turning our difficulties into a driving force to make ourselves and the world better."
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