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Insight Quotes
"Just because your pain is understandable, doesn't mean your behavior is acceptable."
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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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"The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame."
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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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"What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open."
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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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"I beg your pardon, one knows exactly what to think."
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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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"By its nature, what you yearn for is most often intimidating. It produces, and itself is, a question, and one that is not easy to engage or answer."
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"Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies."
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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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"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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"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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"When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge."
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"Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could really assert itself?"
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"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."
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"Understanding do not come by being religious."
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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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"I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished."
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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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"The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves."
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"What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]"
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"In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them."
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"Too bad children don't know how profound their thoughts are."
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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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"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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"You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes."
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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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"Only after beggary (bhikh) goes away completely, can one see this world 'as it is'."
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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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"Often pain is not real but just a perception."
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"We understand more than we know."
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"What we think about others is what others think about US!"
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"Analogies it is true decide nothing but they can make one feel more at home."
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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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"He reflected. 'I know a lot of different kids of people what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!"
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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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"Nothing comes to our lives without a reason, accept it with love and kindness."
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