When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

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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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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

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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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