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There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon,…
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Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense…
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Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
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No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to…
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Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.
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You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am…
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But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their…
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Women are so enigmatical – some in everything – all in matters of the heart. Don't they sometimes actually admire what is…
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I can not help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn will draw near to others, and learn…
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You are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may…
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Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
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For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all…
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
— Jack Kornfield
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There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in…
— Abraham Maslow
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God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship…
— Marva Dawn
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Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible…
— Caroline Myss
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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping…
— Adyashanti
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Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and…
— Parker J. Palmer
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
— Anatole France
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The loss of our illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.
— Ouida
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In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through…
— Frederick Lenz
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