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"The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization)."
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"My confessions did nothing to alter this situation, but for the first time in my life I felt that somebody actually knew me. Three somebodies, to be exact. Two were roaming the highway in a Cadillac, doing God knows what with a CB radio, but the other was as close to me as my own skin, and I could now feel the undiluted pleasure of her company."

"I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me."

"If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant."

"You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards."

"What can't you bear?''This island,' Gabe says. He breathes a long pause between every word he says. 'That house you and Finn are in. People talking. The fish - goddamn fish. I'll smell like them for the rest of my life. The horses. Everything. I can't do it any more.'. . . It feels like he's confessed that he's dying of a disease I've never heard of, with symptoms I can't see."

"Father, I do acknowledge and confess That I this honor, I this pomp have brought
To Dagon, and advanc'd his praises high among the Heathen round; to God have brought
Dishonor, obloquy, and op'd the mouths
Of Idolists, and Atheists.
The anguish of my Soul, that suffers not
Mine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest.
This only hope relieves me, that the strife
With me hath end."

"If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words."

"I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon..."

"I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment."

"My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit."
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"Chit impurity is due to the relative vision. When the vision becomes real (enlightened), purification of chit occurs."

"In shukladhyan (Pure contemplation as the Self, the Soul), whole world begins to look faultless (nirdosh). In dharmadhyan, despite seeing the other person at fault; one will uphold him as being faultless that is 'dhramadhyan', 'what is the other person's fault? He is simply instrumental (nimit) in it. It is due to the effect of my own karmas that I have encountered him."

"Illusion (moha) is to take a beating and then forget, to take another beating and then forget again."

"Where there is asakti [infatuation], there accusations cannot refrain from happening. That is indeed the nature of asakti [infatuation]."

"You will not realize the absolute supreme Self (parmatma) unless the weakness departs. Anger, pride, deceit and greed are the weaknesses."

"This is not suitable for me- to say this is indeed madness, it is nothing but egoism. To say 'will not suit' is an offense."

"There is no truth in this world that is worth insisting upon! Anything that is insisted upon is not the truth at all!"

"Even the slightest criticism of others is an impediment (hindrance) to Absolute Knowledge (Kevalgnan, Absolute Enlightenment). It also hinders Atmagnan (Knowledge of the Self), also hinders Samkit (Self-realization)."
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