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"If you feel that you are going without go within."
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"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."

"All answers that you seek can only be found within."

"When you are in action it is very difficult to get a bird's eye view of your own performance! Find some time to introspect."

"Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even grown."

"If you feel that you are going without go within."

"I Feel like a prison holding myself, bounded by the judgements of people I care and chained by the rules of the society I live in. If I would let the person who speaks inside me out, he would tell you a different story than what you have seen all these years. Sometimes I see myself crying, screaming and trying to tear myself into pieces when I stand in front of the mirror so that I could finally be free from myself. But the demons I have created inside me to guard beats me down and laughs at me, watching me bleed."

"Don't look for the devil outside, look inside and exorcise yourself."

"It was so quiet, I could hear my own breathing, loud in my ears. Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."

"My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think."

"A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle."
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"The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully."

"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."

"You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers..."

"Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time."

"It is not blindly pushing your own agenda that will enrich the world. It's is your ability and willingness to understand, appreciate, anticipate, address, serve and support the lives of others that will."

"Your life - and all lives - will be richer if lived with a open, loving heart rather than a closed, fearful mind."
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