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"I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
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Personal Development

"You're too old for fairy tales, Baasen said."
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Personal Development

"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
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Personal Development

"There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened."
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Personal Development

"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."
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Personal Development

"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."
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Personal Development

"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
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Personal Development

"But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat."
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Personal Development

"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."
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Personal Development

"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."
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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."
Religion


"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."
Religion


"To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes."
Religion


"SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence."
Morality


"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"
Morality


"The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living."
Understanding


"Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism."
Criticism


"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."
Understanding


"One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts."
Trust


"The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose."
Freedom
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