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It’s easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world. It is the hardest and most important work in one’s life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
Hate destroys the hater.
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves.
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Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.
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I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.