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The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.

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Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
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The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.
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Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.
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