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"But the biggest clue seemed to be their expressions. They were hard to explain. Good-natured, friendly, easygoing...and uninvolved. They were like spectators. You had the feeling they had just wandered in there themselves and somebody had handed them a wrench. There was no identification with the job. No saying, 'I am a mechanic.' At 5 P.M. or whenever their eight hours were in, you knew they would cut it off and not have another thought about their work. They were already trying not to have any thoughts about their work on the job."
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"I care as much as I can, but I don't spend energy caring about things I cannot resolve."
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"Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them."
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Personal Development
"Having less worries is what allows me to talk to beggars in the street or tell jokes at waitresses and try to make them smile. I couldn't do that before, when I had a job and was always worried about money."
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Personal Development
"Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul]."
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Personal Development
"If they weren't good for you in 2015, they won't be great for you in 2016. Let them go."
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"To get, simply release, and then gently invite."
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Personal Development
"It isn't so much life's problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic."
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"Poverty becomes a marvellously beautiful thing when the mindis free of society. One must become poor inwardly for then there isno seeking, no asking, no desire, no - nothing! It is only this inwardpoverty that can see the truth of a life in which there is no conflict at all."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes being indifferent solves everything."
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"All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing."
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"Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold."
Nature
"Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships."
Spiritual
"Grades really cover up failure to teach."
Learning
"We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives."
People
"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."
Experience
"Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn't know."
Intuition
"To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top."
Life
"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."
Heart
"We're living in topsy-turvy times, and I think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old forms of thought to deal with new experiences. I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know. Everyone's familiar with that. I think the same thing occurs with whole civilizations when expansion's needed at the roots."
Evolution
"One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward."
Creation
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