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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."

"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."

"Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness."

"The mind that is collectively orientated is quite incapable of thinking and feeling in any other way than by projection."

"Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness."
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"Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same."

"If the impulse to daring and bravery is too fierce and violent, stay it with guidance and instruction."

"When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state."

"Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words."

"Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion."

"When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable."

"In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth."
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