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"Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom."
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"It isn't so much life's problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic."

"People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words."

"All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing."

"I never have been involved in politics."

"Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth."

"Where there is kashay, they are all considered heaps of parigraha (worldly possessiveness); whether one is living in the Himalayas or in a cave. Where there is absence of kashays, there is absence of possessiveness; even if one is then living in a palace!"

"To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!"

"Sometimes being indifferent solves everything."

"For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home."
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"Demonstrating verbal kindness looks better on everyone know matter what the situation. There's a peace in the heart of the kind person who handles everything with love."

"It feels good not to think about anything that wears on me. We all need that kind of of room in our lives."

"It doesn't cost anything to be a good person, but yet there are toxic people around us that will try to tax our lives."

"I think the greatest sound in the world is hearing one of your children singing when they think no one is listening."

"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"

"Dear God, I ask that you help me with the darkness I've been feeling and that you help me make today a changing day in my life. I ask you, dear God, for calm in my mind and your light in my heart. I ask these things in Jesus's name, amen."

"Always think and always dream. Wonder what's around the next corner for yourself, and don't be afraid to go there, but most of all Love. Loving yourself and the people around you is the easiest path through life. It will bring you around that corner, and places you've never been."
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