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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Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

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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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Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

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Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two.

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Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.

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

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All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.

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