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- The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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- It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey
  that matters in the end. We are all travelers, whatever our position,
  and as one traveler to another, I salute you.
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- The events that happen to you are actually initiated by you within
  your own mental or psychic inner environment.
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- If the world were clear, art would not exist.
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- You project your thoughts, feelings, and expectations outward,
  then you perceive them as outside reality.
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- There is nothing in your exterior experience that did not originate
  within you.
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- The meaning of life is that it stops.
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- The very true beginning of wisdom is the desire of discipline.
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- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. The avoidance of danger
  is no safer in the long run than exposure to it.
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- Satisfaction is a decision, not a condition.
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- People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves
  up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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- People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
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- You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
  really stop to look fear in the face; you must do the thing you cannot do.
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- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew as if your life depended on it.
  It does.
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- Most great achievers owe their success to having listened respectfully to
  the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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- What seems nasty, painful, and evil to one mind can be a source of beauty,
  joy, and strength to an open mind.
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- You either do a thing or you don't. Trying is not doing.
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- Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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- You are aware, alert and participating in many more realities than you know.
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- One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore
  for a very long time.
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- Always try once more, no matter how many times you have failed.
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- There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
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- "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
   Boldness has genius , power  and  magic in it."
                                            Goethe
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- The time to commit is now.
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- Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right,
  or better.
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- They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change
  them yourself.
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- What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
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- Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
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- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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- "If you really want to examine your strength,
   see how many times in a day you are disturbed."
                                        Sri Swami Rama
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- Money comes from people.  The only thing that you can do with it,
  therefore, is give it back.
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- Mastery is not perfection, but rather a journey; and the true master
  must be willing to try and fail and try again.
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- "The challenge of the (Shambhala) warrior is
   to be brave and at the same time gentle."
                         Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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- All energy is the sum of free will plus love.
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- In the darkest hour the soul is replenished and given strength
  to continue and endure.
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- The essence of cowardice is to not acknowledge the reality of fear.
  True courage is not the elimination of fear; but going beyond it.
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- What you believe to be true is true. To change your reality change
  your beliefs.
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- "He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he
   who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion."
                                                 Chuang Tzu
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- If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
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- "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking
   creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
                                                      Lao Tzu
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- "You can't change the world, but you can definitely transform yourself."
                                                           Sri Swami Rama
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- Victory lies not in realization of the goal, but in a relentless
  pursuit after it.
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- The essence of cowardice is not acknowledging fear.
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- "Life does not need to be changed. Only our attitudes do."
                                               Sri Swami Rama
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- If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
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- "That which is pleasant is not necessarily good; and 
  that which is good is not necessarily pleasant." 
                                        Hindu saying
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- "Aspire and you will be inspired."
                     Swami Rama Tirtha
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- Illusion is the only reality.
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- Those who accomplish the most have an infinite capacity to not
  know what can't be done.
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- You may want to believe; you may even think you believe; but
  if you really believe, the result will be instantaneous.
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- You make your own reality. There is no other rule.
  Knowing this is the secret of creativity.
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- All greatness is born of humility.
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- You create your own reality.
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- All states of consciousness are available right now.
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- "God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing."
                                                      Tagore
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- Your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions,
  causes all experience. There are no exceptions.
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- If you dwell upon limitations then you will meet them.
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- Inspiration is extraordinary desire accompanied by the
  willingness to open up and trust what you receive.
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- The finest timber comes from the slowest growing trees.
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- To be healthy you must believe in health.
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- To fly away from problems may seem the easiest solution.
  But you gain strength only when you wrestle with a strong opponent.
  One who doesn't have difficulties is one who doesn't grow.
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- A person is old only when he refuses to make the effort to change.
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- Nothing is impossible, unless you think it is.
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- A wish is desire without energy.  After a wish may come "intention" -- the
  plan to do a thing, to fulfill a wish or desire  But "will" means: "I act
  until I get my wish."
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- The point of power is in the present.
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- The Western dream is to have a lot of money, and then you can lead a life
  of leisure and happiness.  Nothing in experience could be further from
  the truth.
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- Guilt arises from not having fulfilled your personal expectations.
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- "Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do."
                                                                     Goethe
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- The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
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- All human wealth is created by the human mind.
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- Every adversity contains the seed of an equivalent benefit.
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- The more you share, the more you will have.
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- Try to do little things in an extraordinary way.
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- What you resist, persists.
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- Only those who dare, truly live.
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- "Who is wise? He who learns from all men."
                                  The Talmud
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- The body always responds to right action and right
  thought by giving you energy.
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- Kind words can be short and easy to speak,
  but their echoes are truly endless.
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- Beauty is useless, superfluous, like all great things in life.
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- "Acknowledging fear is not a cause for shame. True fearlessness
   is not the elimination of fear, but going beyond fear.  Without
   fear there is no courage."
                                       Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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- You always need what you get.
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- Whatever your mind constantly dwells upon, that you become.
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- You can control nothing but your own mind.
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- Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.
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- There is nothing in the universe that does not have meaning,
  is not synchronistic.  The universe is not chaotic; it is a
  cohesive gentle course.
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- There is nothing that anyone will ever say to you
  that you don't already know.
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- The body never lies.  The body is always echoing what's
  happening in the spirit.
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- The price of freedom is anxiety. And the antidote
  to anxiety is action.
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- "To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life."
                                                   Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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- "The essence of warriorship, of human bravery,
  is refusing to give up on anyone or anything."
                          Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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- "The key to warriorship and the first principle of Shambhala vision
  is not being afraid of who you are. Ultimately the definition of
  bravery is not being afraid of yourself."
                                              Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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