"Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark."

Awareness, Universe, Darkness, Reality

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"Don't close your eyes to the Universe and then complain: 'It's dark."

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"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"

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

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

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"We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time."

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"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."

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"I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability."

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"It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride."

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"But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that's going to be human and isn't yet, or used to be human once and isn't now, or ought to be human and isn't, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so."

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"Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on."

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"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing."

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"People just can't cope with happiness."

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"I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life."

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"All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect. Anyone who chooses a religion is also choosing a collective way for worshipping and sharing the mysteries. Nevertheless, that person is the only one responsible for his or her actions along the way and has no right to shift responsibility for any personal decisions on to that religion."

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"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

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"If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man."

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"People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want."

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