You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, and still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

- Franz Kafka

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Free will does not mean that you establish the curriculum; only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.

- A Course in Miracles

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The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment
to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

- Charles Dubois

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Enlightenment consists not merely in the seeing of luminous shapes and visions, but in making the darkness visible. The latter procedure is more difficult, and therefore, unpopular.

- Carl Jung

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A ship is safe in harbor- but that's not what ships are for.

- John A. Shedd

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What is to give light must endure burning.

- Victor Frankl

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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

- Hippocrates, Precepts, Ch. 1

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

- John Muir

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

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You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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God comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

- Unknown

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Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

- George Bernard Shaw

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God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.

- James Barrie

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We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song. But in that dance, and in that song, the most ancient rites of our conscience fulfill themselves in the awareness of being human.

- Pablo Neruda, Toward the Splendid City

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There is no way to peace,
Peace is the Way.
There is no way to happiness,
Happiness is the Way.
There is no way to love,
Love is the Way.
- Dan Millman, Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior