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Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul – you create suffering.

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We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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Attitude Character Goodness Inspirational
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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Artist Freedom Monk Possession Powerful Rich World
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Be Yourself Believe Inspirational Tolerance World
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
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Mask Ourselves Reveal
For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.
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Dominate Joy Lose Love Mind Moments
It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Greatness Insecurity
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
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One Liner Sympton Violence
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
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Age Birthday Love Protect
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
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Happiness Ill Joy Peace Serenity
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
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Kill Knowledge Mystery Possession Sense Wonder
I don’t wish power, only art -art and passion.
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Art Non Violence One Liner Passion Power
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
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Death Error Giving Healing Lose Move On Postpone Risk Suffering
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
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Catch Dreams Inspirational Live Miracle Moments Positive Run
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Breathe Cry Culture Sing Writing
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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Charity Freedom Gain Help

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