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• The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

  Deepak Chopra

  Being Yourself, Command And Control, Ego

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.13, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Mindfulness, Found, Great Things

  "The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci".

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• And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Flower, Animal, Simple

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• As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Long, Imagination

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• Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Spirituality, Behinds

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2007). “Nausea”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

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• We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

  Epictetus

  Attitude, Inspiration, Perception

  Epictetus, Sharon Lebell (2013). “The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Matter, Damn

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.169, Image

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

  Thomas Merton

  Inspirational, Moon, Sailing

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.35, Sounds True

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• The sage embraces things. Ordinary men discriminate amongst them and parade their discriminations before others. So I say; those who discriminate, fail to see.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Ordinary, Sage

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• We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Ideas, Spirituality

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• Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. Continue easy and you are right. The right way to go easy is to forget the right way, and forget that the going is easy.

  Zhuangzi

  Way, Forget, Easy

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• I guess I'm a spiritual secularist, if that's not an oxymoron. My paths of secularism and spirituality are the same: I try to do the appropriate thing at each moment.

  Paul Krassner

  Trying, Path, Moments

  "In The Jester's Court". Interview with David Kupfer, www.thesunmagazine.org. February 2009.

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• Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys. "Give me back my wife. Give me back my job. Give me back my money. Give me back my reputation, my success." This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Success, Jobs

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• Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

  William Osler

  Thinking, Overcoming, Tasks

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.37, ACP Press

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• Love is difficult, because loving is not enough: We must, like God, ourselves be Love.

  Angelus Silesius

  Love Is, Enough, Difficult

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• It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Flesh, Ifs, Spirit

  Radio Broadcast to the Nation Following the USS Missouri Surrender Ceremony, delivered 2 September 1945, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, Japan

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• Be therefore thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be worthy to receive greater.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Being Thankful, Spirituality, Greater

  "Moody Classics Complete Set".

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• Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

  Vernon Howard

  Real, Simple, Goal

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• You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Powerful, Mean, Identity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.75, Penguin

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• The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Technology, Dysfunction

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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• Be - don't try to become.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Life, Trying

  "The Book of Wisdom". Book by Rajneesh, 1983.

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• When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Yoga, World, Demand

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• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

  Galileo Galilei

  Atheist, Believe, Humor

  "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.

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• You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Atheist, Science

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• "I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning," said the Master.

  Anthony de Mello

  Thinking, Assuming, Stranger

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