I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...

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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.

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Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.

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An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

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And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.

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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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At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

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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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It is important for me to know how to love the world, not to despise it, not to feel hatred towards it and myself, to look at it, at myself and at all beings with love, admiration and great respect.

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Youth is the most difficult time of life. For example, suicide rarely occurs amongst old people.

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