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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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"The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of self, before there can be a birth to the nobler."
"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
"The mind becomes much more beautiful, when man could see his own weaknesses."
"Be yourself, that is all there is."
"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."
"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
"Use time to discover who you are."
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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
"The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth."
"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
"Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of."
"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."
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