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““Hmm,' said the King. 'I must write that down in my book of aphorisms. I don't know if it is deep, but it sounds deep.””

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[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we…

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True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.

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Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until…

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“The Master is not trapped in opposites. His this is also a that. He sees that life becomes death and death becomes life, that right has a kernel of wrong within it and wrong a kernel of right, that the true turns into the false and the false into the true. He understands that nothing is absolute, that since every…

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What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond…

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“I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will speak no…

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When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

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There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the…

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“The river rises, flows over its banks and carries us all away, like mayflies floating downstream: they stare at the sun, then all at…

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What may appear to be proud ungrateful and headstrong fron the outside may from the inside express an unshakable integrity of character. Pride, if…

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“The Frog was the only one who could retrieve the golden ball because he was the only one who could descend into the well. He was the only one who could descend into the well because the art of diving was still unknown in Europe at this time. The art of diving was still unknown in Europe because it had…

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