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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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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The real frienship is like fluorescence, it shines better when everything has darken.
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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.
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You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.
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I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
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The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.
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Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.
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On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.
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Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
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Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house – do not pass by like a dream.
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Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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Let me light my lamp , says the star, And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
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Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
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I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
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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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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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