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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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

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By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

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

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

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

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