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“You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.” quote by Rajneesh — Download Open image

“You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.”

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