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You are the light of the world. You are the consciousness that illuminates the world. Know yourself as that, and that's freedom,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
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If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one's self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
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