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Nature
has placed in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
- Cicero
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A
human being is part of the whole called by us "Universe."
We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something
separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.
This delusion is a prison for us. Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature.
- Albert Einstein
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When
you are identified with the One, all things will be complete
to you.
- Chuang Tzu
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They
that have time, and look for a better time, will lose time.
Oh, seize the instant time; you will never power the mill
with waters that have already passed by.
- Sufi Proverbs
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Your
own heart is the dwelling place of the Essence of the Universe.
- Sufi Master Attar
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He
who knows his own self knows God.
- Mohammed (The Hadith)
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It
is with the interior eye that truth is seen.
- St. Augustine
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Those
who form desires in their minds become offspring of those
desires.
-Mundaka Upanishad
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All
that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded
on our thoughts, it is made of our thoughts.
- Buddha
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Our
life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
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As
we think in our hearts, so we are.
- Proverbs 23:7
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The
transmigration of one's life takes place in one's mind. Therefore
keep the mind pure, for what we think, that we become.
- The Upanishads
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Self-knowledge
is the shortest road to God.
- Suri Master 'Aziz ibn Muhammad al-Nasafi
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I
want to show others a man just as he is, true to his nature;
and this man will be myself. I am not made like any of those
I have come across. If I am not better, at least I am different.
- Rousseau
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The
good man does not grieve that others do not recognize his
merits.
- Confucius
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Riches
do not come from an abundance of goods but from a contented
mind.
- Mohammed (The Hadith)
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A
mind absorbed in sense objects is the cause of bondage, and
a mind detached from sense objects is the cause of liberation.
- Vishnu Purana
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When
the heart weeps for things that are lost, the spirit laughs
for what it has found.
- Sufi Proverb
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When
we are old, we must do more than when we were young.
- Goethe
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Our
life should be so active and progressive as to be a journey.
- Henry Thoreau
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I
am still learning.
- Michelangelo's lifelong motto
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No
one was ever great without divine inspiration.
- Cicero
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The
poet sometimes seems to have a chamber in his brain into which
an angel flies with divine messages.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This
is the sum of all true righteousness: deal with others as
you yourself would be dealt.
- The Mahabharata
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A
true friend is someone with whom you can discard your rationalizations
and pretenses so that you can develop your unique human potential
without fear. A true friend is someone whose soul joins with
yours in exploration of the universe and with whom you rejoice
in your mutual discoveries.
- John H. McMurphy
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