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"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

"Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment."

"I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment, the little daily dose."

"I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out."

"The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven."

"Now the proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator - to enact intellectually, volitionally and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature when it does so, it is good and happy."

"At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in."
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"We all do make mistakes, many times. What is commendable is that you try to find solutions. You just don't give up."

"Had the love been permanent, there won't have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won't have been bad blood in the family."

"Perhaps it is easy for men to start a conversation by admiring women. Many times they may not mean it, but still they say it. Women may not believe it, but still they like to believe it."

"We are not sure whether the world ever physically comes to extinction. It may or it may not. But, the moment a person dies everything comes to extinction for him. His world is devastated.I believe that one should fully live the life before it comes to extinction."

"If the pull of the moon can disturb the ocean, why can't the pull of planets cause a disturbance in the mind of creatures like us."

"The seventh element is 'consciousness' that raises a human from the basic corporeal state and takes them to super - consciousness."

"Contentment should not be confused with smugness. Contentment is being happy despite of the successes and failures."

"Smoking does not make one ill, but worrying makes. Drinking two pegs in the evening would not make you ill, but sleeping with tensions and worries would definitely do that."
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