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To raise an infant, to look after it, to educate it, and to give oneself to its service is as much and as good as the work of an adept because an adept forgets himself in meditation and a mother forgets herself by giving her life to the child.

—Hazrat Inayat Khan

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True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile.

—Mother Theresa

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Jesus Christ is the only God.
And so am I.
And so are you.

—William Blake

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Only twice comes that cry of the mother which one hears as without one's self — at birth and at death . . . why the same? Since one is the cry of supreme joy and the other of sorrow . . . Is it not that in all the Universe there is but one great continuing Sorrow, Joy, Ecstasy, Agony — the Mother Cry of Creation.

—Isadora Duncan

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People go through that psychological bit nowadays. They think they should always be reevaluated themselves. I fight the battles as they come along. That sort of juvenile self-analysis is something I've never done.

—Richard M. Nixon

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The political campaign won't tire me, for I have an advantage. I can be myself.

—John F. Kennedy

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

—Cris Williamson

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God glows and flames . . . Eternity, believe it or not; it's as real as shit.

—Aldous Huxley in Island

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We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

—Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks

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There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe.

—Ram Dass

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The vital democratic connection between community and leadership, between the mass and the several elites, has been so wrenched and perverted that disastrous policies go unchallenged time and again . . .

—The Port Huron Statement, 1962 Students for a Democratic Society

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Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one.

—J. R. Slaughter

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You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession, that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

—Kahlil Gibran

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The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings the past and the future are not as real, but more real than the present.

—Alan Watts

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I am myself plus my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I cannot save myself.

—Ortega y Gasset

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