You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind alert.

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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love.

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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