"Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there."
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"The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live."
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"When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap."
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"Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there."
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"The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen."
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"Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness"
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"In the world of form, everything changes and evolves. So, there was a certain evolution of the teaching. Different pointers came in, different stories, different approaches to the truth, which always is the same."
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"The essence of every form is the deathless. Even the essence of a blade of grass is the deathless. And that's why the world of form is sacred."
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"It's very difficult for me to travel now without music just because I'm so spoiled. It's a huge luxury to go and play your music for all these people around the world and having come up to you in a special way - they really want to show your their city, or really want to show you where they are from. If you are just traveling, you don't get that same welcome."
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"When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world."
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"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."
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"Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator."
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"We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it."
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"Nothing in this world happens by chance"
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"To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies"
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"I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I was the one person in the world with the authority to open them."
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"If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you."
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"I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does."
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"There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world."
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"When you know the language of love,it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you."
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