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"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."
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"Don't behave like your heart and mind are strangers to you; they are yours, don't depend on others to understand them, you got to understand them."

"Appreciate yourself for who you're not for what you're."

"A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the 'Self'."

"Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?"

"Always be true to yourself, you matter the most."

"Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a great deal outside; it is the large and preposterous present of myself."

"Who are you? What are you? Why are you?"

"Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have."
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"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."
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