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- In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
- Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep,…
- Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the reason the wise…
- A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune…
- We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
- The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. "What do you want him to be when he grows up?"…
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