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rabindranath tagore
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 talmud
every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "grow, grow."
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pierre teilhard de chardin
you are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience • you are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
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henry david thoreau
goodness is the only investment that never fails
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it takes two to speak the truth, one to speak it, another to hear it.
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could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
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the question is not what you look at, but what you see.
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echart tolle
i opened my eyes • the first light of dawn was filtering through the curtains • without any thought, i felt, i knew, that there is infinitely more to light than we realize • that soft luminosity filtering through the curtains was love itself • tears came into my eyes • i got up and walked around the room • i recognized the room, and yet i knew that i had never truly seen it before • everything was fresh and pristine, as if it had just come into existence • i picked up things, a pencil, an empty bottle, marveling at the beauty and aliveness of it all.
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mark twain
it's easy to stop smoking, i've done it plenty of times.
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most people are bothered by those passages of scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those i do understand.
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lao tzu
we make doors and windows for a room: but it is these empty spaces that make the room livable • thus while the tangible has advantages, it is the intangible that makes it useful.
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