Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

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I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.

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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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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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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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I slept and dreamt that life was a joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was a joy.

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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