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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

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Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

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Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

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For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

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The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.

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There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

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And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

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Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

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If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

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If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

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