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The journeywe follow
Chapter 1:Life
Chapter 2:Humanity
Chapter 4:Friendship
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Chapter 15:Creativity
Chapter 16:Wisdom
Chapter 17:Love & Care
Chapter 18:Dreams
Chapter 3:Modernity
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Chapter 5:Loneliness
Chapter 6:Searching
Chapter 7:Thought
Chapter 8:Freedom
Chapter 14:Inspiration
Chapter 13:Inner strength
Chapter 12:Peace within
Chapter 11:Change
Chapter 9:Learning
Chapter 10:Patience
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I would like to dedicate this book to my dear friend, Svitlana, who died in a bicycle accident in London last year. She was one of my closest friends, a friend who would share our views about this world, humanity, we would always get confused about the evils of this world, and would try to find answers to our questions together. She had a very big influence on my life and my development as I spent most of my life with her when working at Grosvenor House (from 2002-2005).
She was the kindest person I have ever known, someone who would always inspire everyone around her with her inner strength, will-power, and most importantly, with her absolute innocence. I have a feeling she was someone who has never sinned, she had never had a negative thought about anything, her mind and thoughts were most pure. At the same time she was a
DedicationTo my dear friend Svitlana Tereschenko
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very confused person, but a person who was ready to take that life challenge and to fight hard to find answers to her fundamental questions. She was a very religious person as Christian, but became very much fascinated by Buddhism in her later years as it was helping her to find peace within herself. She have decided to go to Tibet one day, as she thought it could help her in her spiritual journey.
It was always a comforting thought knowing that I had a friend who shared my passions, my questions and my confusions. Then her death left me fight and search on my own. It has also made me start on this book, as I stopped questioning myself why do I want to publish this book, questioning the purpose and overthinking the whole process of publishing. I realized that now I had a purpose, I just wanted to do it for her, to prove to her and make her proud, show her that this kind of project can inspire others and maybe help others on their journeys of growing up. When one loses someone they loved dearly, life suddenly seems different. We are not afraid anymore, we know that life challenges are nothing compare to the pain of loss.
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The book is based on my personal journey of stuggles, sufferings and many questions I wanted answers to. The book is based on my personal journey of stuggles, sufferings and many questions I wanted answers to.
1. LifeThe book will start with quotes on life. Thinking about Life is when one start seeing life different from how we envisioned it in our childhood. This is when we come to a realisation about ..... questioning life, this is when we get confused for the first time n our lives, when the realisation of something bigger, and our relative thinking about it that was when my long journey of being lost has started.
2. HumanityQuotes about humanity
3. Modernity
The journey we all follow
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Questions have arisen about out our modern world, the childish perception of the world have been replaced by a confused mind. Much youth these days are confused about our world, society, some try to run around in search of answers, others chut off from the rest of thr world. Our generations is exposed to excessive amounts of informations, older generation’s expectations are sometimes too high for the young to cope with. Modern society makes us work without questioning its reasons. We are brough up feeling guilty as we know that ‘others’ in this world are less fortunate. we are brought up into thinking that by achieving material stability we should be complete and ‘happy’ in ths life. The reality is not as we would like it to be. Many are lost, as ever. The worst thing is that they find themselves fighting on the own, searching for the truth on thwir own in this modern lonely world of questions.
4. FriendshipFriendhsip is a rather biased definition. The definition is different accross cultures. Many philiosophers tried to understand the concept of friendship, some looked at it as something selfish,
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others as a projection of ouseves onto someone else. What is a friend after all? We change our understanding of it as we grow older, with our values changing we find our relationship to people around us changes too. We leave childhood friends in our past, and we meet people on our life path as we go along. We can call friends people who we connect to on a higher level, sometimes we only see them once or twice in our life, but they holding us together and inspiring us.
5. LonelinessQuotes about loneliness
6. SearchingQuotes about loneliness
7. ThoughtQuotes about out thoughts
8. Freedom Quotes about freedom
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9. Learning Quotes about learning
10. PatienceQuotes about patience
11. ChangeQuotes about change
12. Peace withinQuotes about peace within
13. Inner StrengthQuotes about strength
14. InspirationQuotes about inspiration
15. CreativityQuotes about creativity
16. Wisdom
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Quotes about wisdom
17. Love and CareQuotes about love and care
18. DreamsQuotes about dreams
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Chapter 1:Modernity
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People are being persuaded to spend
money they don’t have, on things they don’t need, to
create impressions that won’t last, on people they don’t
care about.
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Tim Jackson
Chapter 2:Care & Love
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You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an
ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose
that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all
the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have
watered.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Don’t allow your mind
tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily.
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Paolo Coelho
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Allow all others to experience
what they need to experience in order to find their way to
Knowledge of Self for that is the only avenue upon which one can truly absorb the Living Light. But ever remain ready,
willing and able, to embrace, with open arms and Unconditional Love, the one who find their
way to Truth.
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Unknown
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Be patient towards
all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to
love the questions themselves.
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Raner Maria Rilke
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When the power of love
overcomes the love of power, the world
will know peace.
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Jimi Hendrix
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Love is the most important
thing in the world. It may be important to great thinkers to
examine the world, to explain and despise it...it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and
beings with love, admiration and respect.
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Hermann Hesse
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The Kabbala contains the
profound doctrine of the Androgyne. The Lohar says: “No
form which does not contain both the masculine and the feminine principle is a complete or a higher form. The holy finds its plea only where these two elements are
completely united. The name person (man) maybe be given only to mand
and woman united in one being.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
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To be happy with a
man you must understand him a lot and love him
a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to
understand her at all.
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Helen Rowland
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We come to love not
by finding a perfect person but by learning
to see an imperfect person perfectly.
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Sam Keen
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Love many things, for
therein lies the true strength, and whosoever
loves much performs much, and can accomplish much,
and what is done in love is done well.
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Vincent Van Gogh
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We are, each of us
angels with only one wing; and we can only
fly by embracing one another.
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Luciano de Crescenzo
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The most wonderful of all
things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom
one’s relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This
inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing; it
cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort
of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in
life.
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Sir Hugh Walpole
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People who are sensible about love are incapable of
it.
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Douglas Yates
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Neither a lofty-degree
of intelligence nor imagination nor both
together go to the making of genius. Love love love
that is the soul of genius.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Nirvana or lasting
enlightment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through
persisted exercise of love.
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M.Scott Peek
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Love is but the
discovery of ourselves in others, and the
delight is the recognition.
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Alexander Smith
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If you love
someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they
don’t they never were.
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Richard Bach
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I’ve learned that
people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people
will never forget how you made them
feel.
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Maya Angelou
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Chapter 3:Peace within
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We are never “at home”:
we are always outside our-selves. Fear, desire, hope, impel
us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when
we ourselves shall be no more..
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Michel de Montaigne
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To live for some
future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the
mountain that sustain life, not the top.
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Robert M. Pirsig
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Students today can’t get anywhere:
what ails you? Lack of faith in your self is what ails you. If
you lack in yourself, you’ll keep on tumbling along, following after all kinds of circumstances through transformation,
and never be your self. Bring to rest the thoughts of the ceaselessly seeking mind, and you’ll not
differ from the Patriarch - Buddha.
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Lin-Chi
Chapter 4:Inspiration
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When you are inspired by
some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your
thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and
talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by
far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
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Patanjali
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Nobody made a greater
mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a
little.
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Edmund Burke
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All truly great
thoughts are conceived while
walking.
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Fredrich Nietzsche
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If your mind remains unchanged,
you are re-creating every day the same world and the same devils. To see angels
flying around, use your wings.
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Paulo Coelho
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Joan of Arc
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that
is a fate more terrible than dying..
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I believe that
imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more
potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience
-- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger
than death.
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R. Fulghum
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Plato
Music is a moral law. It
gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm
and gaiety to life and to everything.
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Life is not about achievement, it’s
about learning and growth, and developing qualities like
compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so
if that is the case, then I think our goals should include
something which stretches us.
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Jack Canfield
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Pien Hein
To be brave is to behave
bravely when your heart is faint.
So you can be really braveonly when you really
ain’t.
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There are only two ways
to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as though everything is
a miracle.
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Albert Einstein
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Chapter 5:Humanity
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Le Petit Prince)
Where are the people?”
resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely
in the desert...””It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the
snake.
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Oscar Wilde
The smallest act
of kindness is worth more than
the grandest intention.
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Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Our prime purpose
in this life is to help others. And if you can’t
help them, at least don’t hurt them.
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Piet Hein
The noble art of Losing
Face may one day save the Human Race and turn
into eternal merit what weaker minds would
call disgrace.
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Leo Tolstoy
The greater the state,
the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum
of suffering upon which its power is
founded.
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“Don’t tell your problems to people; 80% don’t care and the other 20% are glad you have
them.’’ - Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz
Don’t tell your problems
to people; 80% don’t care and the other 20%
are glad you have them.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We can love a far
person but cannot love a near
person.
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Douglas Adams
Man had always assumed that
he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved
so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on, whilst all the dolphins had
ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to
be more intelligent than man for precisely the same
reasons.
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Goethe
We do not have to
visit a madhouse to find disordered minds,
our planet is the mental institution of the
universe.
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Dalai Lama
What surprises me most about
humanity? Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to
recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being
he does not live in the present or the future; as if he is never going
to die, and the dies having never really lived.
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Leo Tolstoy
In all history, there is
no war which was not hatched by the governments,
the governments alone, independant of the interests of
the people, to whom war is always pernicious even
when successful.
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Chapter 6:Searching
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Lawrence Block
Serendipity. Look for something,
find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to
your needs than what you thought you were
looking for.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
The man of modern times
has had to pass through critical doubt, through solitude
in knowing, through times when he felt deserted by all his fellows.
The transition from the comfortable knowledge in Kant was fruitful. There can be no return to the old, childish
dogmatism - we must turn to a new, mature, creative
dogmatism.
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Leo Tolstoy
Truth, like gold, is to be
obtained not by its growth, but by washing
away from it all that is not gold.
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Daisette Suzuki
Expectations are the very things that
keep one from achieving one’s expectations. Expecting to achieve enlightement stops one from achieving enlightement.
Only when one stops expecting to have faith can one have
faith.
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Hermann Hesse
When someone is seeking...
it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking,
that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking,
because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means
to have a goal, but finding means, to be free, to be receptive, to
have no goal.
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Benjamin Hoff (Tao of Pooh)
A saying from the area
of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: “One
disease, long life; no disease, short life.” In other words, those who know what’s
wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than
those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some
sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it’s
there.
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Søren Kierkegaard
Encouragement: veracity, true simplicity of
heart, how valuable are these always! He that speaks what is really in him, will find men to
listen, though under never such impediments.
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Marcel Proust
The real voyage of
discovery consists not in seeking new
landscapes but in having new eyes.
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Debbie Ford
Remember, all the answers you
need are inside of you; you only have to become
quiet enough to hear them.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Truth is comprehension
and liberation of being, it presupposes the creative act of
the knower within being; truth is meaning and may not deny meaning. To deny meaning in the world means to deny truth, to recognize nothing
but darkness. Truth makes us free. To deny freedom is
to deny truth.
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Anais Nin
We don’t see
things as they are, we see them as
we are.
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Dr. Seuss
Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter and those
who matter don’t mind.
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Benjamin Hoff (Tao of Pooh)
Everything has its own place and
function. That applies to people, although many don’t seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the
wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and
respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You
also know where you don’t belong.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Phylosophic knowledge cannot
have its source in books or in schools. The source of phylosophy is not Aristotle or Kant, but being itself,
the intuition of being.
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Chapter 7:Wisdom
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A single event can
awaken within us a stranger totally unknown
to us. To live is to be slowly born.
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Benjamin Hoff (Tao of Pooh)
You’d be surprised how
many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit
square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality
that Things Are As They Are.
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Albert Einstein
A man should look
for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. If the facts don’t fit
the theory, change the facts.
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Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees
the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty.
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Benjamin Hoff (Tao of Pooh)
Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh
thoughtfully.“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.”
“And he has Brain.”“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.”
“I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands
anything.
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J.Campbel
Life is without
meaning. You bring the meaning
to it.
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David Russell
The hardest thing
in life is knowing which bridges to cross
and which bridges to burn.
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Epictetus
He is a wise man who
does not grieve for the things which he has not,
but rejoices for those which he has.
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Benjamin Hoff (Tao of Pooh)
The wise are
not learned; the learned are not
wise.
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Chapter 8:Friendship
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Frank Crane
What is a friend? I
will tell you. It is a person with whom
you dare to be yourself.
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Chapter 9:Inner Self
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Buddha
Believe nothing no matter
where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees
with your own reason and common sense.
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Søren Kierkegaard
In so far as the self
does not become itself in this way, it is not itself. And not to be oneself, as God created you,
is despair.
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Hermann Hesse
The reason why I do
not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien
and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing -
I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself.
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Chapter 10:Change
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Andy Warhol
They say that time
changes things, but you actually have to change them
yourself.
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Paulo Coelho
Change happen when we go against
everything we are used to doing.
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Chapter 11:Thought
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Blaise Pascal
Man’s greatness lies
in his power of thought.
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Hermann Hesse
In every truth the
opposite is equally true...a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is one-sided. Everything that is thought and expressed in words in one-sided, only half the truth; it all
lacks totality, completeness, unity.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Man’s consciousness of
himself as the centre of the world, bearing within
himself the secret of the world, and rising above all the things of
the world, is a prerequisite of all philosophy: without it
one could not dare to philosophize.
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Buddha
All that we are is
the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we
think we become.
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Hermann Hesse
Words do not express
thoughts very well. They always become a
little different immediately they are expressed, a little
distorted, a little foolish.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Man is a meeting point
of two worlds...Man is conscious at once of his greatness
and power and of his worthlessness and weakness, of his imperial freedom and his slavish dependance: he knows
himself as the image and likeness of God and as a drop in the ocean of the necessities of
nature.
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Nikolai Berdyaev
Once the idea is realized, i. e.
the statue is built or the book is written, it becomes objective. It
is now a part of the material world, separated from the mind. It exists by itself. It is also less perfect than the
idea that it originated from, just as a translation of a book into another
language is always less perfect than the original. Something
always gets lost.
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Chapter 12:Loneliness
111.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Le Petit Prince)
Where are the people?”
resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely
in the desert...””It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the
snake.
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Chapter 13:Creativity
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Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine
is real.“
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Nikolai Berdyaev (Creative Act)
A philosophy of creativeness
can be the philosophy only of these who create; i.e. those who in a creative act
pass beyond the boundaries of the given world. A philosophy of creativeness predicates, as well, a
philosophy of freedom-it is a philosophy of liberated men. Creative philosophy cannot be academic, or state or bourgeois philosophy. The philosopher is a free man, independant of the world, a man who refuses to adapt
himself. The philosopher cannot serve the nation or political parties, he cannot serve academic otr
professional aims. The philosopher cannot serve the good of mankind; he cannot
be in service to anyone or any personal human purposes.
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Chapter 14:Freedom
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Bhagavad Gita
It is better to live your
own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life
with perfection.
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Chapter 15:Learning
119.
Benjamin Hoff (Tao of Pooh)
A well-frog cannot
imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect
conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the
Tao? He is restricted by his own learning.
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Uchimura
The true knowledge
of Life comes only by living it.
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Hermann Hesse
As a child I learned that
pleasures of the world and riches were not good. I have
known it for a long time, but I have only just experienced it. Now
I know it is not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with
my heart, with my stomach. It is a good thing that I
know this.
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122.
Hermann Hesse
A true seeker
could not accept any teachings, not if he sincerely wished to
find something.
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(Sherlock Holmes)
I consider that a man’s
brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock
it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the
knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that
he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
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124.
Buddha
However many holy words you read, however
many you speak, what good will they do if
you do not act upon them?
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Kahlil Gibran
I have learned
silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I
am ungrateful to these teachers.
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Chapter 16:Patience
127.
Benjamin Hoff (Tao of Pooh)
And when you try too hard,
it doesn’t work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax
and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and
Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard--one that thinks
too much.
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128.
Hermann Hesse (Kumala)
It is the same when Siddhartha
has an aim, a goal. Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts,
but he goes through the affairs of the world like the stone through water, without doing
anything, without bestirring himself, he is drawn and lets himself fall. He is drawn by his goal, for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal...Nothing is caused by demons; there are no demons. Everyone can
perform magic, everyone can reach his goal, if he can think, wait and fast.
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Leo Tolstoy
The two most
powerful warriors are patience and time.
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Hermann Hesse
Most people are like a
falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flatters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like starts which travel one defined path: no wind reaches
them, they have within themselves their guide
and path.
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Chapter 17:Life
133.
James Giles (Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought)
What is important in
our lives is not what we experience but how we experience
it.
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RalphWaldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where
there is no path and leave a trail.
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Chapter 18:Dreams
137.
Paulo Coelho
When we renounce our dreams
and find peace, we go through a short period of tranquility. But the dead
dreams begin to rot within us and to infect our entire being. We become cruel to those around us, and then we begin to direct this
cruelty against ourselves. And one day, the dead, spoiled dreams make it difficult to breathe, and
we actually seek death. It’s death that frees us from our certainties, from our work,
and from that terrible peace of our Sunday afternoons.
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