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"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."
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"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
"Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these YOU."
"The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully."
"Success is a trophy, a title, something gained, attained or retained. Fulfilment, true happiness, contentment.... bliss is the gift of the self-realised. That is the real prize."
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"If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone."
"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."
"The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car."
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself."
"When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others."
"Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
"Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!"
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