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Insight Quotes
"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable."
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"What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open."
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"I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."
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"That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."
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"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."
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"She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums."
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"When I was a kid I use to put a puzzle together over and over until I got really good at it so one day I turned all the pieces upside down and built it, then I understood the true nature of the puzzle."
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"Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart."
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"Understanding do not come by being religious."
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"Only after beggary (bhikh) goes away completely, can one see this world 'as it is'."
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"You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway."
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"Often pain is not real but just a perception."
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"Intuition is not a different dimension of perception, as people usually try to make out. Intuition is just a quicker way of arriving at the same answer. Intuition is just a way of making use of the data and jumping the steps."
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"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."
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"Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?"
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"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame."
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"If you could have sufficient insight into all the inner and outer parts of your mental life, along with remembrance and intelligence enough to consider all the circumstances and take them into account, you would be a true prophet and visualize the future in the present as in a mirror."
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"See what no one else can see. Be what no one else can be. Do what no one else can do."
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"You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise."
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"When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."
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"To sit down means to calm down without rush and fuss, stop and reflect, analyze all pros and cons, count all possible merits and faults."
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"Listen to 'The Voice', not the choice."
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"You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes."
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"The revelations of God can come to you in a state of wakefulness or in sleep."
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"Nothing comes to our lives without a reason, accept it with love and kindness."
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"Wisdom gives you the understanding of how to live without being dependent oncircumstances in this life."
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"When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window."
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"The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves."
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"We understand more than we know."
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"It may not be prudent to seek new things, but it is wise to see things in a new way."
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"By getting to know you I get to know myself too."
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"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."
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"Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer."
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"Grass is never green by accident."
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"There is always something behind what is wrong and to change what is wrong, mind the things behind what is wrong! So many people are quick enough to see what is wrong only, and they criticize so blindly! When you see what is wrong, see why, who and what is behind what is wrong."
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"Developing the man within comes through self- awareness and self-education."
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"Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit)."
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"It is better to experience than to be told. But it is wiser to learn from the great sacred-souls."
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