Searching means having a goal. But finding means: being free, standing open, having no goal... A seeker does not see some things that are close to his eyes.

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It is important for me to know how to love the world, not to despise it, not to feel hatred towards it and myself, to look at it, at myself and at all beings with love, admiration and great respect.

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What you search is not necessarily the same as what you find. When you let go of the searching, you start finding.

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I believe that the struggle against death, the unconditional and self-willed determination to live, is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all...

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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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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.

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Of course when one opens a coffin, one destroys it. Nevertheless a delicate odour of cedarwood will come forth.

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Homeland is not here or there. Home is either within or nowhere.

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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.

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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.

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