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A universal truth: “Great peace have they which love thy law; and nothing shall offend them.” (Psalm 119:165 KJV)
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We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, -- quieter, warmer.
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Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.
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Be the peace you seek.
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My second son introduced me to this aspiration, and it made sense to me that there was no other way to bring real peace anywhere.
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Sink or swim? I say, "Choosing to 'sink' is to trust nothing, and choosing to 'swim' is to trust fate. However, choosing to 'float' is to faithfully trust Him.
As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
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Some believers accuse skeptics of having nothing left but a dull, cold, scientific world. I am left with only art, music, literature, theater, the magnificence of nature, mathematics, the human spirit, sex, the cosmos, friendship, history, science, imagination, dreams, oceans, mountains, love and the wonder of birth. That’ll do me.
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass unter the trees on a spring day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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It is the stillness that will save and transform the world.
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If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.
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You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.
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We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now
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If a problem can be solved, there is nothing to worry about. If it can't be solved, well you can always buy chocolate :)
We only live once. We all have an expiration date after that we will never come again. I am not saying that to make you sad. I am saying that so you can cherish each moment in your life and be grateful that you are here and you are Special
Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.
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There are so many who have power and are so afraid to lose it. Being afraid of losing their power means they have already lost the will to properly wield, transform and transcend it on every level.
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I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
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Five Quarters of the Orange
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I'd rather have high self-esteem and be called a "Diva" than have low-self esteem and become a "Doormat".
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I am the author of this quote.
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
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If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.
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An Interrupted Life
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Inner quiet attended by stubborn self-renouncement is one of the hardest endeavours of the spiritual life.
My storehouse having been burnt down, nothing obstructs my view of the bright moon.
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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Evangeline"
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Trouble creates a capacity to handle it....meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance -- embracing all opposites.
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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
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Keep inviolate an area of light and peace within you.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.
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All that is gold does not glitter.
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Art never ages; it just lives in the heart of those that do.
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My own words
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All thoughts vibrate eternally in the cosmos…Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of yoga science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the divine visions of the universe.
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Even as fire finds peace in its resting place without fuel, when thoughts become silence the soul finds peace in its own source. When the mind is silent, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind: the highest End. The mind should be kept in the heart as long as it has not reached the highest End. This is wisdom, and this is liberation.
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All human evil comes from this: man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
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In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don’t serve them tea.
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The awesome joy of accepting one’s inclusion in the divine plan is in no way nullified by discovering that many priestly scholars are manipulative savages.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence…Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff’s hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all Nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.
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A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold desolate misery. What man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium. Physical labor may be painful, but it is not degrading as such. It is not art; it is not science; it is something else, possessing an exactly equal value with art and science, for it provides an equal opportunity to reach the impersonal stage of attention.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her generosity.
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The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.
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I'm not sure where I read it; I copied it in my journal long ago.
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If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".
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Don't Sweat the Samll Stuff
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
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Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
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In order for one to fully appreciate the subtle nuances of this world, one must first allow oneself to notice they’re there.
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To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.
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Stillness Speaks
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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
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In Praise of Mortality
by translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that is troublesome.
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.
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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
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The True Believer
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Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
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The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
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New Seeds of Contemplation
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I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
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Richard Watson Gilder
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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind -- no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.
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The Myth of Freedom
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Published by Shambhala
, Boston & London
, 1988
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Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Sky Flowers
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An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
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from Rev. Christopher Chenoweth: "I have said, many times, there are two types of people in this world, vacuums and sprinklers." from -Tirukkural - "What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life, for killing leads to every other sin. Of all virtues summed by ancient sages, the foremost are to share one's food and to protect all living creatures." from Swami Vivekananda - "Whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For, after all, it is but a dream. Mountain high though the difficulties appear... they are but maya. Fear not - it is banished. Crush it and it vanishes... Go forward. Assert yourself again and again and light must come." from Plato – "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. " from Jimi Hendrix – “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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a personal collection of wisdom quotes, compiled from various Scriptures and the Web
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Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
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The Glass Bead Game
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Published by Picador
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Responsibility . . . lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989
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There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
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Such arts and sciences . . . as are productive of good results, and bring forth their fruit, and are conducive to the wellbeing and tranquillity of men have been, and will remain, acceptable before God.
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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
P. 19
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I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light--so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
You always have the choice to take all things evenly, to hold on to nothing, to receive each irritation as if you had only fifteen minutes to live.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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Peace comes from withinDo not seek it without
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of selfishness and jealousy, greed and anger, pride and egoThen all will benefit from your peace and harmony
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Heart of a Buddha
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, 2003
Contribution #1455
Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings,man will not find peace
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
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, 2003
Contribution #1453
When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Perfect wisdom, Perfect tranquility,Perfect compassion,arise fromOur love,Our sincerity.Our understanding.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
Contribution #1359
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
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Tao Te Ching
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Version or Translation - translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Published by Vintage Books (Random House)
Published in New York, N. Y., United States
Published in 1997 (this edition)
http://this text is widely available in various translations
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When anger arises, think of the consequences.
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When the senses are stalled, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not-- that, say the wise, is the highest state. This calm of the senses and the mind has been defined as yoga. One who attains it is freed from delusion.
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
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14th Dalai Lama
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If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day
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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
What does serenity look like in a person?
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