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"We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
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"Sweet pea, you are my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye, and I don't want to go a day without you. Consider that your official invitation."
"When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth."
"Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him."
"Attachment-abhorrence is the foundation for the worldly life and the foundation for 'Knowledge' is a state free of all attachments (vitragta)."
"When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise."
"Keep on doing whatever it is that you have been doing; but, do no attachment-abhorrence. If 'You' stay in 'Your [Pure Soul] state'; attachment-abhorrence will not occur."
"Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems)."
"Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence."
"And I have to say, books haven't helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there's always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is, Well, it's just you. And when you go, it's gone. Nothing abstract about it."
"Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
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