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"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
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"Learn to experience yourself without judging yourself."

"Be yourself, that is all there is."

"All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects."

"When we learn of Him, we see the things that we do wrong, we see what things need to be corrected in our way of thinking and our way of living."

"Your inner world creates your outer world."

"We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers."

"The reason for our limitation is only inside us."

"I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."

"It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon."

"To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference."
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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."

"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

"The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character."

"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."

"You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat."

"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."

"Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end."

"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."

"Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of."
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