Each work has to pass through these stages—ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.

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Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

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Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

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They alone live, who live for others.

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You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

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All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live.

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In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

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Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

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Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

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Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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