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You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect
— Osho
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It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home
— Rumi
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The mind has to be empty to see clearly
— J Krishnamurti
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A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour
— George Gurdjieff
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free
— J Krishnamurti
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Do not say, 'It is morning' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark '!'
— Osho
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote
— George Gurdjieff
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What is a fear of living? It's being pre-eminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy
— Maya Angelou
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Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for
others
— Osho
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it
— Rumi
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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced
— Vincent van Gogh
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Buddha says: Be a light unto yourself!
I say: Be a joke unto yourself!
— Osho
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven
— John Milton
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He who contrives, defeats his purpose;
and he who is grasping, loses.
The sage does not contrive to win,
and therefore is not defeated;
he is not grasping, so does not lose
— Tao te Ching
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes
— Alan Watts
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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company
— Mark Twain
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Humour is mankind’s greatest blessing
— Mark Twain
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A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms
— Zen saying
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful
— John Constable
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For bliss, one needs a certain integrity… One needs a determined approach to life. One needs to stake all, to risk all. In that very risking, something that has been always there but was hidden, becomes manifest... Your soul is born
— Osho
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Everyone makes mistakes; no one is perfect. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday
— Alexander Pope
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained
— Mark Twain
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I cannot go through one door, I’ll go through another door. Or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present
— Rabindranath Tagore
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When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are
— Osho
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There is nothing logical about human existence. For the mystic, poetry is not a teaching in verse; it is simply an outpouring of an illogical but beautiful inner condition
— Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science
— Albert Einstein
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The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time
— Mark Twain
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Be thankful. For if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little. And if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick. And if we did get sick at least we didn’t die. So be thankful!
— Gautama the Buddha
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As long as a human being worries about when he will die and what he has that is his, all of his works are zero. When affection for the I-creature and what it owns is dead, then the work of the Teacher is over
— Kabir
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The mirror does not say: 'How beautiful! How ugly!' The mirror simply remains silent and reflects. That's the way of the meditator. He becomes a mirror, he looks at the mind – thousands of thoughts and desires and memories go on passing, day in, day out – and he goes on watching with no judgement at all. He does not say, 'This is good, this is bad, this should not be, this should be…' No. He simply looks
— Osho