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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

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Thomas Jefferson
I know, [there is] no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.
Thomas Jefferson, in an 1820 letter to William C. Jarvis

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Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

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Garrison Keillor
That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor, in News from Lake Wobegon

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Walt Disney
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

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Albert Einstein
Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
Albert Einstein, in a response to Alfred Kerr

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Galileo Galilei
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

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Gutenberg Bible
7Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
Matthew, 7:7 (NKJV)

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Mohandas Gandhi
Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

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Sigmund Freud
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
Sigmund Freud, in an 1897 letter to Wilhelm Fliess

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Carl Jung
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.

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the Chinese character dao (tao) in Taoism
There is a thing inherent and natural, Which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give it a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.
Laozi, Ch. 25, Tao Te Ching

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the Chinese character dao (tao) in Taoism
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

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Isaac Newton
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

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Portrait of Leo Tolstoy
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy, Thoughts of Prince Andrew in War and Peace, Bk XIII, Ch. 16

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Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts." ... "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

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the Chinese character dao (tao) in Taoism
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.

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Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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Aristotle
The complete is more than the sum of its pieces.

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Albert Einstein
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
Albert Einstein, in a 1926 letter to Max Born

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Albert Einstein
Whether you can observe a thing or not depends on the theory which you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed.

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him. ... If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.

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Mark Twain
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter – it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain, in a 1888 letter to George Bainton

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Mark Twain
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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Mark Twain
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes time and annoys the pig.

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Mark Twain
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

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Gutenberg Bible
13Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.

14Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Matthew, 7:13-14 (NKJV)

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Gnostic Cross
The Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.

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Gnostic Cross
When you see one who was not born of woman, prostrate yourselves on your faces and worship him. That one is your father.

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Gnostic Cross
I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind.

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Gnostic Cross
His disciples said to him, "When will the repose of the dead come about, and when will the new world come?"

He said to them, "What you look forward to has already come, but you do not recognize it."


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Gnostic Cross
The foxes have their holes and the birds have their nests, but the son of man has no place to lay his head and rest.

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Gnostic Cross
When you make the two one, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away.
Gospel of Thomas, (106)

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The Meister Eckhart portal of the Erfurt Church
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank You", that would suffice.

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Jimi Hendrix grave stone
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will finally know peace.

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You are not a human being in search of spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

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Happy Mutt - Reba
Take giant strides. Leave small footprints.

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Albert Einstein
Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

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Mosque
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. [Imam Anwar Al-awlaki]

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the Chinese character dao (tao) in Taoism
At the center of your being you have the answer. You know who you are and you know what you want.
Laozi

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart.

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A promise lives within you.
Enya, in May It Be

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Engraving of Confucius. The Chinese characters read "Portrait of the First Teacher, Confucius, Giving a Lecture."
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

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Happy Mutt - Reba
Don't mistake the map for the journey.

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Happy Mutt - Reba
When you pay it forward to others, the gift you give is to the only one who truly needs it, yourself.

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For all your days be prepared,
and meet them ever alike.
When you are the anvil, bear.
When you are the hammer, strike.
Happy Mutt - Reba
And when you are the horseshoe, bend.

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A page of a copy circa 1503 of the "Diwan-e Shams-e Tabriz-i"
Say, I Am You


I am dust particles in sunlight.
I am the round sun.

To the bits of dust I say, Stay.
To the sun, Keep moving.

I am morning mist,
and the breathing of evening.
I am wind in the top of a grove,
and surf on the cliff.

Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,
I am also the coral reef they founder on.

I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.
Silence, thought, and voice.

The musical air coming through a flute,
a spark of stone, a flickering in metal.
Both candle and the moth crazy around it.
Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.

I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,
the evolutionary intelligence, the lift, and the falling away.

What is, and what isn't.

You who know, Jelaluddin,
You the one in all, say who I am.
Say I am you.


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