By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
RABINDRANATH TAGORENirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
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We live in the world when we love it.
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Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.
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God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands.
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The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.
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