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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Krishnamurti

I do not much believe in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be.

Albert Einstein

Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.

Dogen

The soul of every man does possess the power of learning the truth, and the organ to see it with. . . . Just as one might have to turn the whole body round in order that the eye should see the light instead of the darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world until its eye can bear to contemplate reality.

Plato

Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

Dinah Shore

You don’t tell the quality of a master by the size of his crowds.

Richard Bach, Illusions

A human being is a part of the whole called by us “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Ruth Rendell

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Rubin

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G.K. Chesterton