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Enlightening quotes

A variety of spiritual quotations from around the globe...

It must be a dream... Chuang Tzu

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    I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
    Chuang Tzu

Thread of connectedness...

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    When one tugs at a
    single thing in nature,
    he finds it attached
    to the rest of the world.

    John Muir

The Great Cosmic Joke

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    "There is one great cosmic joke
    that we have been continually having
    at our own expense through all eternity...

Listen between the words...

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    “The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.”
    Kahlil Gibran

The whole world belongs to you - Lao Tzu

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    "Fame or integrity: which is more important?
    Money or happiness: which is more valuable?
    Success or failure: which is more destructive?...

Light gives of itself freely

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    "Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished."
    Michael Strassfeld

Non attachment to views and doctrine - Thich Nhat Hanh

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    "We must not be attached to a view or a doctrine,
    even a Buddhist one... The Buddha said that if in a certain moment or place you adopt something as the absolute truth and you attach to that...

Your breaking heart

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    "If you are really listening,
    if you are awake to the poignant beauty...

And the day came...

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    "And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
    Anais Nin

One door closes, another opens...

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    "When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
    Alexander Graham Bell
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