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"Let go of everything. That is how you get everything."
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"People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words."

"All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing."

"I never have been involved in politics."

"Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth."

"To be free of insistence [free of forcing one's own opinion] is the path of Vitragta [attachment-free state, the enlightened one]. Quit insisting at all places. To even insist on the truth, God has considered it as ignorance. There is no insistence in 'Us' whatsoever!"

"Sometimes being indifferent solves everything."

"For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home."

"Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded."

"No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be given either to the past or the future. The first was a page so heavenly sweet, so deadly sad, that to read one line of it would dissolve my courage and break down my energy. The last was an awful blank, something like then world when the deluge was gone by."

"I care as much as I can, but I don't spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve."
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"Should we try to account for all the gifts of life there would be no time for distress and uneasiness."

"When someone is vicious toward you they are giving you a glimpse of the pain they carry in themselves."

"Intelligence is often worshiped, even when that intelligence allows unfathomable injustice and suffering to occur under its smart watch."

"Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go."

"Some of the most amazing people in the world were not perfect; they were scarred by suffering, hardships, losses and imperfections."
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