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An overnight success usually takes about ten years. -- Anonymous
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Those who believe they can and those who believe they can't are both right. -- Henry Ford
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Never fear the weapon, only the man wielding it. Focus on your opponent while he focuses on his knife or saber or pistol. He invests his power in the weapon but forgets the rest of his body.
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The actions you take will shape your future for better or for worse. Such is the power of choice.
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I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.
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If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?
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Your sense of worth or deservedness shapes your life by creating tendencies. If you feel worthy and deserving, you tend to make productive choices. ("The world is my oyster.") If you feel unworthy and undeserving, you tend to make destructive or limiting choices. ("Beggars can't be choosers.")"
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Yet acting without understanding may create even more problems. Sometimes you need to simply relax into life, and to trust.
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lofty dreams in the distant future are a difficult burden to carry. The best goals may be those you can handle in the next week, the next day, the next hour, or the next step; create a process that yields many small successes." "Many"
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And so I awoke to reality, free of any meaning or any search. What could there possibly be to search for? All of Soc's words had come alive with my death. This was the paradox of it all, the humor of it all, and the great change. All searches, all achievements, all goals, were equally enjoyable, and equally unnecessary.
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The laws of nature apply equally to the mind and the emotions.
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Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.
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Heroes and cowards feel the same fear; heroes just act differently.
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We're all fools together," he replied. "It's just that a few people know it; others don't. You seem to be one of the latter types. Hand me that small wrench, will you?"
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Per avere una morte benedetta, bisogna imparare a vivere. Per avere una vita benedetta, bisogna imparare a morire.
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I think I understand, Socrates." "Don't you mean you understand you think?" he smiled. I"
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only then do I realize that the jewel had always been with in me, even then and that the light had always shinned, only my eyes were closed
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have shown you the way of the peaceful warrior, not the way to the peaceful warrior. As long as you tread the way, you are a warrior.
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What is that yellow stuff in the bottle, Soc?" "Urine, with a few herbs." "Urine!" I said, pulling my leg away from him in disgust. "Don't be silly," he said, grabbing my leg and pulling it back. "Urine is a respected elixir in the ancient healing traditions."
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If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, What am I? And if not now, when? -- Hillel, Sayings of the Fathers
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It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice." "It"
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What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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But as we mature and begin to grasp that we are often the cause of our own difficulties, we begin a process of compassionate self-observation leading to deeper self-knowledge -- denial gives way to authenticity as the light of awareness penetrates our shadow. We come to accept ourselves (and others) as we are rather than as we might want ourselves (or them) to be. And as we embrace the full scope of our humanity, we open the way to genuine ..
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The poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, experienced this realization early in life: "Since boyhood, by repeating my own name silently, an intense awareness of individuality came, then seemed to dissolve and fade away into boundless being, and this was not a confused state, but clear and sure, utterly beyond words, where death was an almost laughable impossibility."
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Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.'" Saying"
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The secret of success in life: Prepare for opportunity when it comes. --Benjamin Disraeli
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the peaceful warrior's greatest battles don't lie in the external world, but within us. These inner hurdles generate most of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter in daily life. They carry greater danger than outer problems, because they slip, unseen and unnoticed, into our every endeavor.
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Valojaban, Szokratesz, nincs ellenseged, csak te magad. Bekelj meg magaddal, es nem lesz senki, aki legyozhet. Es senki, akit te kivannal legyozni.
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Merulj el a rejtelyben, Szokratesz! Bizz benne! Felejtsd el, amit gondolsz, hogy minek kellene es minek nem kellene lennie, es ismet megtalalod a hited.
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Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. -- ANDRE GIDE
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Sull'acqua, sotto il mare, in alto nel bosco sarai. Fidati del tuo istinto, nel mare; riporta a me il tuo tesoro. Se lo troverai, come dovresti, viaggerai, giorno e notte. Appena lo vedrai, lo saprai, come sopra cosi sotto. Quando lo avrai afferrato, sarai pronto ad attraversare il mare.
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Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.
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Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don't ever really live at all.
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After that, before each practice began, we would sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." "Many children learn this song in my country," I said, "but few people understand its deeper truths. These truths apply, as you'll see, not only to acrobatics or t'ai chi training but to all of life. The words 'Row, row, row your boat' remind us to build our lives on a foundation of action and effort, not on positive thoughts or feelings. Thinking about doing s..
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When you sit, sit; when you stand, stand; whatever you do, don't wobble.' Once you make your choice, do it with all your spirit. Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love to his wife, and thought about making love to his wife while praying.
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Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.
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Moderation?" He leaped up on the desk, like an evangelist. "Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation" -- he took a deep bre..
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Let's go deeper and consider four central sets of paradoxical truths: * Time is real. It moves from past to present to future. * There is no time, no past, no future--only the eternal present. * You possess free will and can thus take responsibility for your choices. * Free will is an illusion--your choices are influenced, even predetermined, by all that preceded them. * You are, or possess, a separate inner self existing within a body. * N..
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Meditating an action is different from doing it. To do, there is a doer, a self-conscious 'someone' performing. But when you meditate an action, you've already released attachment to outcomes. There's no 'you' left to do it. In forgetting yourself, you become what you do, so your action is free, spontaneous, without ambition, inhibition, or fear.
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There is no victory over death; there is only the realization of Who we all really are.
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When on a long trek, it's okay to quit whenever you like, as long as your feet keep moving.
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his mind creates both his disappointments and his -- joys.
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You focused on the goal, not on the obstacle. This is how we face our lives.
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