"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."

Awareness, Perspective, Self, Understanding

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"As far as you can, get into the habit of asking yourself in relation to any action taken by another: "What is his point of reference here?" But begin with yourself: examine yourself first."

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"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Awareness, Awakening, Realization, Emotion, Transition

"The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Awareness, Silence, Sound, Realization, Emotion

"When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens."

Truth Devour, Australian Author

Awareness, Communication, Universe, Observation

"The most astonishing fact of life is that MAN has not only stopped responding to others, but also to HIMSELF!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

Awareness, Response, Life, Truth

"People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality."

Lionel Suggs, American Writer

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"I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Awareness, Observation, Humor, Reality

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"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."

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"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

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"Salvation: to see each thing for what it is- its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.What else could it be but to live life fully- to pay out goodnesslike the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap."

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"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

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"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

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"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."

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"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."

"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"

"The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate."

"Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face."

"Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!"

"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."

"When you speak and your words fall on deaf ears, know that the universe listens."

"The most astonishing fact of life is that MAN has not only stopped responding to others, but also to HIMSELF!"

"People often find comfort in ignorance of illusions, but rarely find solace in the truth of reality."

"I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet."

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"What we cannot bear removes us from life, what remains can be borne."

"Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it."

"Salvation: to see each thing for what it is- its nature and its purpose.To do only what is right, say only what is true, without holding back.What else could it be but to live life fully- to pay out goodnesslike the rings of a chain, without the slightest gap."

"Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so."

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

"The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Nothing is more scandalous than a man that is proud of his humility."

"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

"Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature."

"Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature."