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We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
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Absence Death Fade Fear Ourselves
There’s no vocabulary For love within a family, love that’s lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.
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Deep Family Light Love See Silence Talk
It’s not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
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Rule See Wisdom
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter.
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Deep Love
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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Humanity Reality
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Knowledge Life Live Lost Wisdom
Distracted from distraction by distraction
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Distraction One Liner Philosophy
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Acceptance Life Strength Yourself
I can connect Nothing with nothing
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Connection Myself One Liner
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
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Deep Different Experience Missing
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
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End Ourselves Place Start Time Travel
In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
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Decision Time
I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.
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Life Myself
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
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Myself Night Reading
I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
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Greatness Learning Let Go Myself
We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
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Exploration Place Time Travel

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