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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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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

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

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

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

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

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