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The bird breaks the shell. The shell is the world. Whoever wants to be born has to destroy a world.

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All of this had always existed, and he had not seen it; he had not been with it. Now he was with it, he was part of it. Light and shadow ran through his eyes, stars and moon ran through his heart.
What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.
The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.
Love between young people and love after many years of marriage is not the same thing.
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
Love can be cleaned, bought, received as a gift, found on the street, but it cannot be snatched away by force.
An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.
Sinclair, your love is attracted to me. Once it begins to attract me, i will come. I will not make a gift of myself, I must be won.
Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.