Few Good Quotes

by **Shijumaru Tsukikirameki** Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:55 pm

A few good quotes I've picked up over the years that I enjoyed. I hope they help you guys as they have me at some point.
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Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.
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Our Task must be to free ourselves...
by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures,
the whole of nature, and its beauty.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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The place to improve the world
is first in one's own heart and head
and hands.
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Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade,
But do not be disheartened,
The source they come from is eternal, growing,
Branching out, giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep?
The source is within you
And this whole world is springing up from it.
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If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. And likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance the nearer you will be to the essence.
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In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow--
and that is likely to hurt.
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One man cannot do right in one department
of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong
in any other department. Life is one
indivisible whole.
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You don't get harmony when everybody sings
the same note.
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What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.
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The only journey is the one within.
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The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic is more important than love; mind is more important than heart; power over others is more important than power over one's own being. Mundane things are more important than finding some treasures which death cannot destroy.
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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat
match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves.
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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
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One common mistake is to think that one reality is THE reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.
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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
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The real does not die, the unreal never lived. Set your mind right and all will be right. When you know that the world is one, that humanity is one, you will act accordingly. But first of all you must attend to the way you feel, think and live. Unless there is order in yourself, there can be no order in the world.
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Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
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Do not insist that the universe comply with your understanding of it.
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When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable...
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The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is "look under foot."
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
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Absorbed in this world, you've made it your burden. Rise above this world. There is another vision. All your life you've paid attention to your experiences, but never to your Self. Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prison.
Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do.
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You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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...Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
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For the mind to flower it has to go beyond what it knows.
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There is nothing either bad or good, but thinking makes it so.
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Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
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The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
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It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
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Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
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As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves
and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
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People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
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A moment's insight is sometimes
worth a life's experience.
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
After that, fear has no power,
And the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
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The ability to simplify
means to eliminate the unnecessary,
so that the necessary may speak.
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What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.
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To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
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Don't stand by my grave and weep,
for I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on the snow,
I am sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
Don't stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, all things would appear infinite.
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If I accept the sunshine
and warmth,
then I must also accept
the thunder and lightning.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
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Turn your gaze inward.
Correct yourself and your world will change.
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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
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Dance like no one is watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one is listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth
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