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We in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
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Anand Thakur
What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
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Earth Sink
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings – the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.
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Cling Degree Flow Fragment
Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.
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Anand Thakur
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Action Evil Religion
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
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Anand Thakur
What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.
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Anand Thakur
What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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Carry Earth Heaven Return Spirit Temple
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.
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Body Decay Mindset Strength
So much wrong could religion induce.
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Religion Wrong
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
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Anand Thakur
O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.
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Anand Thakur
If one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.
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Earth Escape God People Scare
Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.
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Anand Thakur
The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
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Anand Thakur

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