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"Life is a series of processes and struggles."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"
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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."


"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."


"We are not slaves to our circumstances; we are slaves to our minds."


"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."


"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."


"These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis."


"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."


"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
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