If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Better late than never. ~English Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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Intelligence is: the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting. ~Ray Kurzweil
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~Milton Friedman
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When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. ~Emile Durkheim
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Lovely message for a lovely person, from lovely friend, for a lovely reason, at a lovely time, from a lovely mind, in a lovely mood, in a lovely style, to wish you; have a lovely birthday...
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool, his whole lifetime. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. ~Zeno of Citium
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God is good, but never dance in a small boat. ~Irish Proverb
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